Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces, Everyone

The band Spanish Love Songs is neither Spanish, nor do they sing love songs. They’re an LA punk rock band, and their 2020 album Brave Faces, Everyone is full of Millennial angst. The songs touch on mental health, suicide, and poverty. Sample lyrics:

Sometimes I wanna vanish completely
And call in sick from life
[…]
‘Cause I’m terrified there’s no more waiting
I’m running out of what comes next
Runnin’ through jobs I’m gonna hate
Living paycheck to paycheck

Listen to the song, tho. It’s defiant; it’s angry. It doesn’t wallow in despair—it fights it off. The album came out in 2020, and it helped get me through the pandemic. We’re all in this together. As the song says:

We don’t have to fix everything at once
We were never broken, life’s just very long
Brave faces, everyone