Billie Marten - 'Drop Cherries'

[paradisedarkness]

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fourth album by Billie Marten will be released 7 april. 

1. New Idea
2. God Above
3. Just Us
4. I Can't Get My Head Around You
5. Willow
6. Acid Tooth
7. Devil Swim
8. I Bend To Him
9. Nothing But Mine
10. Arrows
11. Tongue
12. This Is How We Move
13. Drop Cherries

[sam.teas]

yes 
very underrated princess

[shookspeare]

Hope it's as good as her first two  give the cottagecore gays everything we want 

[bonkbanisters]

I really loved Flora Fauna!!

 

The first single of this didn't hit me yet but I have no worries honestly. Billie is so effortlessly cool Idk what else to say 

[sam.teas]

I'm sure she will deliver 

just checked and she has 2 singles scheduled. the first one is dropping in early February

[sam.teas]

 

[sam.teas]

next and last single

Billie Marten \ I Can't Get My Head Around You \ 3:26 \ 08.03.2023

[shookspeare]

She's back in her bag with these singles 

[bonkbanisters]

Nothing But Mine is so pretty 

[sam.teas]

apparently part of the album l worded 

[bonkbanisters]

ICGMHAY is so cute ahh

Judging by the new music she seems to be in a really good place right now and I love that for her 

[boychik0830]

I love nothing but mine a lot I may have to get the Urban Outfitters exclusive red vinyl. I like the other singles too but nothing but mine is my favorite. I've heard of her before but never really listened to her music until recently.

[sam.teas]

Despite having listened to the album more times, I still prefer the previous album. I Can't Get My Head Around You is absolutely cute tho! 

[boychik0830]

3 hours ago, sam.teas said:

Despite having listened to the album more times, I still prefer the previous album. I Can't Get My Head Around You is absolutely cute tho! 

What are your favorite songs on album besides the already released singles?

[sam.teas]

5 minutes ago, boychik0830 said:

What are your favorite songs on album besides the already released singles?

I really enjoyed Acid Tooth and Devil Swim, but the title track clicked too immediately! 

[boychik0830]

2 hours ago, sam.teas said:

I really enjoyed Acid Tooth and Devil Swim, but the title track clicked too immediately! 

So you thought the album was really good. Are there a lot of upbeat songs or is it mostly ballads? Any other songs like nothing but mine on the album?

[sam.teas]

8 hours ago, boychik0830 said:

So you thought the album was really good. Are there a lot of upbeat songs or is it mostly ballads? Any other songs like nothing but mine on the album?

I’ll write a little review soon, so you can read each songs’ description 

[sam.teas]

Here my little objective and subjective review 

Drop Cherries is an album based exclusively on ballads, slow pieces and harmonizing. The spectrum of instrumentals is small, but they’re matched and shuffled differently in each song. Flora Fauna offered a different vision of her, based on different sounds, different beats and different atmosphere. The correct mood to listen to this album is: sitting into the garden or near the sea and let yourself merge with nature. If Flora Fauna was an alternative piece, Drop Cherries falls into the network of songwriters.

 

New Idea is a wonderful opening track, offering a harmonic harmonizing of her voice trough the whole piece, accompanied with soft instrumentals, in a heavenly way. It matches the philosophical concept of the word “idea”: the capacity to origin a primordial and substantial essence. Starting with a regular guitar, God Above is a slow song, but the rhythm is obtained by the instrumentals. There are several backing vocals in the pre-chorus and specially into the chorus, offering again a heaven situation. In the second strophe the instrumentals appear better, letting the violins giving the song an “old-fashioned” situation. It’s absoulutely cute the pre-chorus filled with the backing vocals that guarantees the “soft explosion” into the chorus. I would have personally added more instrumentals at the end, because the song finished abruptly. Just Us seems to put us into an opposite situation (that can be easily found into Can’t Get My Head Around You), in fact it opens with a faster guitar and she immediately sings. In my opinion it serves as a sort of interlude. Nothing special to be added: just instrumentals and Billie singing in a smooth and soft way. Willow returns back to a “Medieval-ish” sound, with a very soft guitar and her singing simply over the instrumental. Despite remaining flat for the first part of the song, finally at 1:00 the rhythm increases and gives a correct push to the second part of the song, matched thanks to a short instrumental bridge. The song lacks of energy, standing between instruments and simple singing. A cute song, but personally speaking, I prefer skipping it.

 

And then we finally arrive into the trilogy of songs. Acid Tooth is a wonderful ballad, standing out thanks to the atmosphere generated by the sweet strumming of the guitar and her constant harmonizing trough the song, preserved by a male soft background voice. Despite the length (3:27) suggesting a long song, the calm and worm atmosphere guarantee the smoothness of the piece, specially at 2:35 with Billie’s voice! In the end, around 3:05, you will hear a “struggling voice” (not to be read in a negative way) into her harmonizing that perfectly matches the outro. The uniqueness and softness continue with Devil Swim, offering similar instrumentals of the previous piece, offering little spaces to harmonizing and instrumentals, with the whispering voice of Billie: the atmosphere generated again is majestic, and made so thanks to the violins from 1:50~! The “Devil” can be found into the words, but at the same time the instruments give a “gloomy” and sad vibe overall. I Bend To Him exposes her voice in a different way: Billie starts speaking\singing with a very low instrumental, and the sound is “filtered”. It is a particular piece that caught me off-guard. I don't want to spoiler much on the song, since its body is different and I want to let you enjoying the situation.

 

Skipping the released Nothing But Mine,  starting then with an acoustic guitar, Arrows set the sound again into a “Medieval-ish” era, with her sweet singing all over. Around 1:15 the instrumentals build up, empathizing the situation we are immerged into. It’s so cute when she says “But I am the arrow”. The song tells a story and especially the second verses explain it better. Again around 2:23 the instrumentals build up, mixed with the harmonising, accompanied with wonderful backing vocals, ‘til the end of the song. Tongue is a piano-driven ballad, moving in a spectrum of different facets: sweet notes, sweet voice and scuff voice. The song builds up a bit in 1:30, thanks to the violins. I don’t want to unveil much again, and I want to leave you absorbed by this extremely pleasant ballad.

Skipping again the released track This Is How We Move, the title track closes the album. The crescendo of instrumentals from 0:25 gives a cadenced rhythm to the song, again offering long harmonizing of her voice, shuffled into different keys. “I drop cherries at your door, when you ask for more, I don’t know what I’m here for” is so cute, smooth and touching. It’s a splendid way to close the album: telling again a story, matched with hidden images to be discovered!

 

The album is not to be seen absolutely as a step-back from Flora Fauna because it’s built on different keys, but for sure it suggests a different state of mind!

[boychik0830]

3 hours ago, sam.teas said:

Here my little objective and subjective review 

 

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Drop Cherries is an album based exclusively on ballads, slow pieces and harmonizing. The spectrum of instrumentals is small, but they’re matched and shuffled differently in each song. Flora Fauna offered a different vision of her, based on different sounds, different beats and different atmosphere. The correct mood to listen to this album is: sitting into the garden or near the sea and let yourself merge with nature. If Flora Fauna was an alternative piece, Drop Cherries falls into the network of songwriters.

 

New Idea is a wonderful opening track, offering a harmonic harmonizing of her voice trough the whole piece, accompanied with soft instrumentals, in a heavenly way. It matches the philosophical concept of the word “idea”: the capacity to origin a primordial and substantial essence. Starting with a regular guitar, God Above is a slow song, but the rhythm is obtained by the instrumentals. There are several backing vocals in the pre-chorus and specially into the chorus, offering again a heaven situation. In the second strophe the instrumentals appear better, letting the violins giving the song an “old-fashioned” situation. It’s absoulutely cute the pre-chorus filled with the backing vocals that guarantees the “soft explosion” into the chorus. I would have personally added more instrumentals at the end, because the song finished abruptly. Just Us seems to put us into an opposite situation (that can be easily found into Can’t Get My Head Around You), in fact it opens with a faster guitar and she immediately sings. In my opinion it serves as a sort of interlude. Nothing special to be added: just instrumentals and Billie singing in a smooth and soft way. Willow returns back to a “Medieval-ish” sound, with a very soft guitar and her singing simply over the instrumental. Despite remaining flat for the first part of the song, finally at 1:00 the rhythm increases and gives a correct push to the second part of the song, matched thanks to a short instrumental bridge. The song lacks of energy, standing between instruments and simple singing. A cute song, but personally speaking, I prefer skipping it.

 

And then we finally arrive into the trilogy of songs. Acid Tooth is a wonderful ballad, standing out thanks to the atmosphere generated by the sweet strumming of the guitar and her constant harmonizing trough the song, preserved by a male soft background voice. Despite the length (3:27) suggesting a long song, the calm and worm atmosphere guarantee the smoothness of the piece, specially at 2:35 with Billie’s voice! In the end, around 3:05, you will hear a “struggling voice” (not to be read in a negative way) into her harmonizing that perfectly matches the outro. The uniqueness and softness continue with Devil Swim, offering similar instrumentals of the previous piece, offering little spaces to harmonizing and instrumentals, with the whispering voice of Billie: the atmosphere generated again is majestic, and made so thanks to the violins from 1:50~! The “Devil” can be found into the words, but at the same time the instruments give a “gloomy” and sad vibe overall. I Bend To Him exposes her voice in a different way: Billie starts speaking\singing with a very low instrumental, and the sound is “filtered”. It is a particular piece that caught me off-guard. I don't want to spoiler much on the song, since its body is different and I want to let you enjoying the situation.

 

Skipping the released Nothing But Mine,  starting then with an acoustic guitar, Arrows set the sound again into a “Medieval-ish” era, with her sweet singing all over. Around 1:15 the instrumentals build up, empathizing the situation we are immerged into. It’s so cute when she says “But I am the arrow”. The song tells a story and especially the second verses explain it better. Again around 2:23 the instrumentals build up, mixed with the harmonising, accompanied with wonderful backing vocals, ‘til the end of the song. Tongue is a piano-driven ballad, moving in a spectrum of different facets: sweet notes, sweet voice and scuff voice. The song builds up a bit in 1:30, thanks to the violins. I don’t want to unveil much again, and I want to leave you absorbed by this extremely pleasant ballad.

Skipping again the released track This Is How We Move, the title track closes the album. The crescendo of instrumentals from 0:25 gives a cadenced rhythm to the song, again offering long harmonizing of her voice, shuffled into different keys. “I drop cherries at your door, when you ask for more, I don’t know what I’m here for” is so cute, smooth and touching. It’s a splendid way to close the album: telling again a story, matched with hidden images to be discovered!

 

The album is not to be seen absolutely as a step-back from Flora Fauna because it’s built on different keys, but for sure it suggests a different state of mind!

So overall the album is good but not as good as her last one. Do you think that nothing but mine has a medieval sound to it? I don't mind ballads as long as they aren't too depressing. Based on your review I'm really excited for the album when it comes out. No more singles are scheduled before the album release date?

[sam.teas]

11 minutes ago, boychik0830 said:

So overall the album is good but not as good as her last one. Do you think that nothing but mine has a medieval sound to it? I don't mind ballads as long as they aren't too depressing. Based on your review I'm really excited for the album when it comes out. 

 

The album is good but different than the last one! Just because is different it doesn't mean it's bad! Nothing But Mine doesn't give that "Medieval" sound as the ones I described before, just a cute ballad as you can hear! But its position in between I Bend To Him and Arrow is perfect!

Happy to see you excited to hear the album! 

14 minutes ago, boychik0830 said:

No more singles are scheduled before the album release date?

Currently nothing is scheduled!

[boychik0830]

12 minutes ago, sam.teas said:

The album is good but different than the last one! Just because is different it doesn't mean it's bad! Nothing But Mine doesn't give that "Medieval" sound as the ones I described before, just a cute ballad as you can hear! But its position in between I Bend To Him and Arrow is perfect!

Happy to see you excited to hear the album! 

Currently nothing is scheduled!

I heard about her when she released flora fauna a few years ago. I heard some of the songs from that album but never really paid much attention until I saw that there was a Urban Outfitters exclusive vinyl so I wanted to listen to the singles again to see if I wanted to buy the album. I listened to some of the songs from her last album and I think I like this more peaceful relaxing sound more than the alternative sound from Flora Fauna.

[sam.teas]

 

[bonkbanisters]

Finally got around to listen to it and oh my, this is just so precious... So different and much slower than Flora Fauna but very very beautiful   

[coldoutside]

i love this album! been listening a lot since it came out and vibe with it much more then her previous projects.

[coldoutside]

still absolutely obsessed with this almost a full year later!