I never know what is really happening when I compose a new episode of my Songs of the Week. Until Friday, I am gathering new releases of that week, then I am potentially cleaning the list, choosing my favorite one and find a suitable order for the remaining songs. Last week, German schlager has been the dominating genre – there is not a single schlager track this time. Therefor, the post is very rocking. Enjoy!
Tyler Childers – In Your Love
The leading song of the week is, however, a very gentle song by Tyler Childers. Tyler Childers? Yearh, you would typically expect the US-American artist from Kentucky in my country music reviews – but this week, he released a beautiful pop ballad with a minimal country touch… but a lot of beautiful emotions.
Untamed – Can You Hear Me
Typically, you know the German band Untamed from Augsburg because they record smashing rock songs. Their single release Can You Hear Me shows a very different, emotional side of the band. And it is a great listen. There will also be a tour and a self-titled album towards the end of the year.
Louise Lemon – Midsummer Night
On her own bandcamp site, Louise Lemon describes her sound as death gospel. The Swedish artist is trying a new start with an album release in 2024. The sound of the feature single Midsummer Night is definitely promising.
Glen Hansard – The Feast of St. John
The Irish singer-songwriter will be in Germany in August as well as in November this year. The Feast of St. John is a beautiful rock track, which cannot deny a lovely core of Irish folk music.
Tom Klose – All Night
The Northern German artist Tom Klose is doing modern synth pop. I feel it is a great listen, regardless if you like the synth tunes of the 1980’s and 1990’s or if you rather enjoy modern pop music. Thus, I had to share this one with one.
Nadine Fingerhut – Irgendwas ist immer
Irgendwas ist immer is the new single release by German pop singer-songwriter Nadine Fingerhut. She started to play guitar as a teenager and already released three albums since then. The lady from Northern Hesse is about to add a fourth one, Hafen & Meer, which is due to be released in September.
Kytes – Deep Dive
The Kytes are an indie-pop band from Munich. Their sound feels very international – that’s maybe as their producer is from Vienna, but their future album has been mixed and produced in the USA. Love it!
Drahtseilakt – Drahtseilakt
Rather frequently, there are self-titled albums. However, Drahtseilakt even recorded this self-titled song. Drahtseilakt is a duo from Bottrop in the German Ruhrgebiet. Nice pop song with undeniable summer vibes.
Fifty Vinc – Runnin’
Fifty Vinc is mixing rap and hip hop beats with rock elements. Runnin’ is his latest song – I feel it is a really great listen. The project is in fact based in Germany as well.
Ticket to Happiness – Freiheit!
The sound of this Songs of the Week edition stays rocking. The Western German collaboration Ticket to Happiness, however, are doing folk rock. The band lead by Jan Philipp Bäumer released a great sing-a-long this week. Not too surprisingly, they are playing quite a lot of festivals this summer.
Callider – Short Steps
This week’s edition features a lot of German bands. One of them is Callider from Nuremberg. It is a one-man death metal project driven by guitarist Stefan Lange. A great listen for the friends of harder riffs.
Dust Bolt – I Witness
My list of new releases sticks with metal – and it stays in Southern Germany. Dust Bolt are from Landsberg am Lech. The thrash metal band is active since 2006 and thus a very established act in the German music scene. With this new song, Lenny Breuss and his band mates underline their musical quality another time.
Thomas Godoj – Endlos furchtlos
Thomas Godoj won the fifth season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German version of American Idol, in 2008. The German-Polish musician is pursuing a successful music career. Songs like Endlos furchtlos illustrate the key reasons of his success: a great vocal performance and straight, well-written rock songs. Things just cannot go too wrong if you are that talented. His ninth studio album, which is released later this year is simply called Album des Jahres – “Album of the Year”. Let’s see if it pops up in my 2023 Best of postings.
Songs of The Week – The Playlist
You may also listen to my Songs Of The Week and songs selected in some of the previous weeks on this Spotify playlist:
2023 Postings with Gallery
Here are all my postings with a major size picture gallery published in 2023:
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Afrer his very interesting album release Going Solo, I was really curious about how Gergor McEwan would be alike live on ...
After I had the opportunity to see Kelvin Jones at the Heart To Heart show in Dusseldorf and the preparing ...
Busy times: just three days after I saw Home Free in Hamburg and eight days after the Randall King show ...
Home Free - the a capella country band has built a fan base all over the world nowadays. I was ...
While the first match at Mobiliar Arena between Floorball Köniz Bern and Tatran Stresovice was the first leg of the ...
The Floorball Champions Cup 2024 indeed feels much more like a "real" European Cup competition introducing home and away matches ...
It's been quite a while since I covered the last Sound of Nashville show. On 15th September 2023, the Semmel Concerts country ...
My first posting from the Manforter Stadion at the #TrueAthletes Classics 2023 in Leverkusen has been about the field events. Now, ...
World class athletics in walking distance to my home? The #TrueAthletes Classics in Leverkusen has been on my bucket list ...
The Monheimer Sommer is a small series of open air concerts, driven by the city in the Rheinland region. Apart from ...
With this fourth posting, I am closing my coverage of the German Athletics Nationals 2023. The Auestadion in Kassel hosted ...
I start my coverage of the second day of the German Athletics Nationals 2023 in Kassel with the field events ...
I am a huge fan of the field events in athletics - and thus, I am really glad to also ...
The German Athletics Nationals (or German Athletics Championships... or Deutsche Leichtathletik-Meisterschaften) 2023 in Kassel were truly one of the events I ...
Closing day in Pfulllendorf - after Saturday came with a long line-up and a lot of acts, the musical side ...
After the great musical warm-up on the first day of the Seepark Biker Days 2023 in Pfullendorf, Saturday was something ...
My first full festival coverage with Flyctory.com - I was really nervous while sitting on the train to Stuttgart and ...
This weekend will be a tough one, a very emotional one for me. After 52 shows with the British production ...
Back to the Kantine in Cologne: just less than a month after I saw Kip Moore in their major and ...
Puffins are one of my favorite animals. Thus, being able to say hello to them in wildlife conditions is always ...
A 75k ATP Challenger right next to the city where I grew up? Troisdorf near Bonn and their tennis club ...
Sound of Nashville time again. Right after I returned from a brief trip through the Nordics, Semmel Concerts and their ...
Eight days of traveling along the Icelandic Ring Road are done. The trip was just intense. My wife and I ...
Dubrovnik is very often named to be the Pearl of the Adria or the Jewel of the Adria. This is majorly due ...
In 2018, four Bristol guys recorded an old New Zealand shanty, which was about 150 years old at that time ...
Semifinal time in the German floorball playoffs: after I already took you to the first women quarterfinal match between Bonn ...
I have to give in: the red carpet is not my favorite location. Nonetheless, I felt very thankful that after ...
Floorball playoff time in Bonn: on 26th March 2023, the SSF Dragons Bonn hosted the first best of three match ...
After a lot of tour-chasing Weird Al Yankovic and watching the Pittsburgh Penguins, the first weekend home after quite a ...
Ten shows within three weeks - I was just so flattered to welcome Weird Al Yankovic and his lovely band ...
Heading to Hamburg for a day just in the middle of Weird Al Yankovic tour-chasing for country music? February and ...
That day in Tilburg, Netherlands, was some sort of highlight of my Flyctory.com history so far. Almost five years after ...
February and early March 2023 held a couple of concerts and shows for me. Thus, right after returning from the ...
The ISTAF Indoor in Dusseldorf was truly an sports event I was looking forward to very much. First of all, ...
27th January 2023, the first Flyctory.com concert coverage of the new year. I will feature a couple of really cool ...
Especially when I wrote my Best Ones 2022 posting recently, I absolutely felt that I should increase the coverage of sports events ...
Back in the Harz region: I loved to be in the area where I used to live for some seven ...
Songs of the Week 2023
Here are all my Songs of the Week postings published in 2023:
It's Christmas Eve, the main day of the Christmas celebrations in Germany. However, all the holiday songs seem having been ...
The Christmas countdown is steadily running to zero - which more and more means that new releases get sparse. I ...
I am a bit of angry as the tool I loved to use to scan for new country releases does ...
After my previous Songs of the Week editions were rather pop-alike, I was rather surprised that my release radar this time is ...
London, Faroe Islands, another trip tp England, Sweden, USA - the last weeks of 2023 involve quite a bit of ...
Oh, Christmas is approaching quickly now. A huge number of songs I scanned for my Songs of the Week this time ...
I had a short trip to Hamburg this weekend, watching my last Nacht der Gitarren show (see my Reutlingen show report) ...
I had a quite intensive week, exploring several interesting rail trips as well as being back in Pittsburgh and in ...
Halloween is not that much of a big deal in Germany - but some parts of my home country have ...
Just two months until Christmas. You feel that in my this week's edition of the Songs of the Week definitely. First ...
I spent almost the entire week at work in Dublin at one of our offices. Quite an intense time, which ...
Maybe, due to the national holiday in Germany, the list of new songs was rather short on the platform I ...
Unfortunately, I had to kick out quite a lot of songs from my list, which I really liked. They just ...
There is somehow always some sort of "topic" behind each and every Songs of the Week episode. If I would pick one ...
The Songs Of The Week is one of my favorite categories of posts on my blog. Even I don't know how the ...
Wow - I had so many albums this week. Even if I skipped all travel posts and do the regular ...
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I have quite intense weeks at work, not too many thrills on the Flyctory.com side. The next weeks will have ...
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After some rather intense week of traveling, I feel rather happy to spend the next two weekends in and around ...
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I typically rather focus presenting new and emerging act in my Song of the Week, but this time, the list of ...
I received so many great albums this week - no chance to process a fair fraction of them. However, the ...
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I have struggled quite much with health issues this week - which also prevented me to travel to some British Rock ...
A public holiday in (parts of) Germany gave me the opportunity to collect some status Tier Points for my British ...
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This weekend was really difficult for me to plan ahead. With the ISTAF Indoor in Dusseldorf, I had a fixed ...
Oh wow, I really have to limit myself this week. There is so much good music being released this week ...
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I guess that the next weeks will be more intense. Depending if you look at the publishing or the cut-off ...