This is the fifth installment in “Music Mondays,” a new weekly music column from WHRC, the Bi-Co’s student-run community radio. Featuring music news, album and concert reviews, playlists, recommendations, and more.
Bored of your same old playlists? Tune into WHRC, Bryn Mawr and Haverford College’s student-run radio station, to expand your listening ear. To give you a taste of what student DJs play on air, I offer these tracks to get you through the second-to-last week of classes. My show, Neil Yung Lean Buck Meek Mill Radio airs on Wednesdays from 6-7 p.m. with Catherine McCarthy (BMC ’27) & Eliza Duff-Wender (BMC ’27).
Monday: Rizla Blue Lovesong (the sound chalk makes)
For fans of Mietze Conte and ear, this snappy track by the sound chalk makes (Kabir Parekh) will capture your attention. Helps that it’s only five lines and just over a minute long.
Parekh is a US-born, Mumbai-rased 20 year-old college student studying at the University of the Arts London. He leads the emergent electronic collective MumbaiAndarground.
Tuesday: stop talking to AI start talking to god (Svn4vr)
We first played stop talking to AI start talking to god on our show in early February. This anonymous British musician currently releases music under the moniker Svn4vr (pronounced Seven Forever). While we found him intensely handsome, we were disappointed to find out that his public facing photographs are indeed Chad Danforth from High School Musical.
“TikTok poetry lowkenuinely changed my meedi life when I was seventeen,” Svn4vr writes. Following minutes of TikTok poetry, he closes (at 01:45) by encouraging himself (and you, by extension) to put in an application for a “good job, well paid job (Amen)/ job with comfort (Amen), without no stress (Amen).”
Wednesday: Fess Up (Deer Park)
On hump day, you’re tuning into Fess Up by Deer Park. Might sound familiar if you’ve come across fakemink’s earworm of a song, Sniffany. In addition to Snifanny, Deer Park produced tracks Ragebait and Wookies for mink and played guitar on the masterpiece MAKKA (ft. ecco2k and mechatok).
Thursday: Big Muzzy (Fine)
Next up, I bring to you Danish artist Fine (Fine Glindvad). This one’s for fans of the contemporary boop beep “cph+” sound. Along with a friend from WBOR 91.1 FM, I saw Fine perform in Copenhagen last year. She had the voice of an angel, and this track, Big Muzzy, is a fine companion to your Thursday.
Friday: Losing Focus (EXUM)
Here we go. On Friday you’re Losing Focus. The Virginia Tech football player turned artist Antone Chavez Exum Jr., known mononymously as EXUM, leaves us little to no digital footprint to follow. This track, though, is full of textures, scattered somewhere in between Dijon, Toro Y Moi, and Samba Jean Baptiste.
“Writing is precious to me,” EXUM says. “The vulnerability to bleed on paper. While playing with words, styling the same outfit for the 7th day in a row.”
Losing Focus is his best work, by a mile and then more. He sounds especially good at 2:26. Shout out Shenandoah mountains. Shout out Virginia.
