Hello and welcome back to Three Songs to the Head where we share three songs that moved us, three songs we love, three songs we can’t get out of our heads! Today, we’re featuring two installments of the same gimmick – so prepare yourself for tunes from Lemolo, La Luz, Spekulation + Jesse Dangerously, Susy Sun, Sendai Era and Grace Love. Enjoy!

–Jake Uitti

The music of Lemolo is the wind through the trees, their branches. The sort of wind on which owl wings fly. Lead singer, Meagan Grandall, is a wound up power house who delivers her strength in series of minuscule moments. Like an automatic weapon of soul power, as evident on “Hold Light.”

La Luz is coy. They are also wise. Aloof. Lovable. Existing also between shadows they themselves make. They are the felt of the wizard cap just where it ends and the new air begins. Where are they, when are they? Only, everywhere. Obviously. “Don’t Wanna Be Anywhere” tells this story with each last note.

Food and music. What else is there? They are really the same thing, actually. Feed your mind and body in a matter of minutes with this new one from Spek and Jesse Dangerously – then have seconds. The song is about pumpkin spice, but the real spice in the jam is the humor spread think over each and every lyric.

This is the most expertly produced song from Susy we’ve heard to date. It’s the sort of song you land on in the car radio after you’ve touched down in a new city and you want to see what the local stations are bumpin’. This song bumps. Like the back window of a car rattling bumps. We want to say congrats to Susy!

There have been a series of people saying hip-hop is dead. Well, it isn’t. And here is a fresh breath from local cats, Sendai Era. “Fuck your definition of success – we don’t want it.” What else do you need to hear, doubters? Check out the video for “Downfall” here:

Maybe the hottest band in the Emerald City these days, Grace Love and the Trueloves, seem to be on every magazine cover or newspaper in the town. And with good reason. The huff and puff coming from Love’s big voice and the accompanying glint shooting off the eyes of Jimmy James’ guitar is enough to blow any unworthy house down. Their song, “Mean to Me,” is as beautiful as the band’s name.