Songs of the Week: Your Heart Breaks, Joshua Radin, & Morgxn

Welcome to Songs of the Week, a running series with new selections.

Your Heart Breaks – “Snow Dusted Ponies”

Clyde Petersen, known as Your Heart Breaks, enlists Christine Fellows and John K. Samson for a new song. “Snow Dusted Ponies” rambles up a mountain of sound, backing vocals swooping and dipping in the mix. Written for Canadian musician and artist Ivan Coyote, someone who’d become a dear friend, the drum-led track harkens back to a trip to the Yukon, during which Petersen literally saw snow-dusted ponies on the side of the road. The moment made for a perfect song, so she put her pen to paper and conjured up an ode to the wilderness to capture that moment in time. It now forever lives on in the song, immortalized for eternity.

Joshua Radin – “Man of the Year”

“I know that I can’t keep running away,” sings Joshua Radin. With “Man of the Year,” the singer-songwriter declares he’s no longer scared of someone in his life, and such pain fuels him to be a better person despite it all. Drums throb with the rhythm of a heartbeat, keeping Radin’s voice threaded through the arrangement. “Can you hear over the radio?” he asks. He puts hope in knowing that perhaps the song will make its way over the airwaves and find the person who once terrified him. “Man of the Year” is a freeing experience. As Radin shakes off the past, he looks to a brighter, healthier, and more fulfilling tomorrow.

Morgxn – “Beacon”

“Beacon” is a religious experience, and Morgxn‘s voice is holy water. “Let’s set our sights out there beyond where we’ve been dreaming all along / Where the light meets the horizon,” Morgxn calls into the distance. The atmosphere swells with the power of his voice, long before a choir joins him. Hope, as he sees it, is the only thing keeping him afloat. And it’s always out there, perhaps peeking behind the clouds, even though he can’t see it. “Sometimes, we’re the beacon,” he sings, reminding the listener that hope comes from somewhere within. We just have to find it for ourselves.

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