NYC Scene Report – Momma, N A I M A, & Wilmah

This week’s NYC Scene Report features Momma giving us some “Medicine,” N A I M A getting intimate, and Wilmah dealing with the highs and lows of human emotion.

* If actual medicine tasted as good as Momma’s “Medicine” sounds, I don’t think any of us would mind a shot of Robitussin.

As it stands, however, only the NYC-based band provides such a favorable flavor, and the recent Polyvinyl Record Co. signees will be releasing a full-length album in 2022.

When it comes to “Medicine,” the band explained the inspiration for the song in a statement, saying, “When we wrote the first verse we realized it was one of the first times we couldn’t write about heartbreak – we were both in very loving relationships. We wanted to write about that feeling of just being addicted to someone, and how someone else’s company can really feel like a drug.”

Click play on the video, and get high on Momma’s “Medicine.”

* If you’ve been thinking the NYC Scene Report could really use an R&B jam, N A I M A is here to provide you with that thunder with her latest single, “ThunderGO.”

Discussing “ThunderGO” in a statement, N A I M A said, “This song definitely has a strong sensual energy driving it. At the same time there is an undertone of tension. There is a back and forth that is happening in this song, an emotional dance, so to speak, and all of the back and forth, tension, and sensual energy that is swirling thickly around ultimately evokes an undeniable need, and desire to feel a release. In this case, that feeling of catharsis is achieved through physical intimacy.”

In other words, click play if you want to feel some HEAT!

* Back in October, Wilmah made their NYC Scene Report debut, and this week they’re back with another great indie alt-pop song, “Wait Until Tomorrow.”

“The song is about getting your hopes up, and being let down time and time again,” the band said in a statement, “It’s about what it means to be a human being – the peaks and valleys of human emotion, and how sadness and happiness intertwine.”

Personally, the song won me over with its opening line – “My life is like a doctor’s handwriting / It’s really hard to read, and often quite frightening.”

Click play, and I think you’ll be won over by Wilmah, too.

For more of the best of NYC’s indie music scene, come back next Wednesday, and check out the archives for previous columns.