One of the most gorgeous indie-pop ballads to have emerged from this year. A genuinely emotive and powerful piece.
New Music: Joseph Stingley
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New Music: Alexandra Joner
There’s not a lot I can say about this track other than it being an absolutely massive pop banger from Norway. Infectiously fun.
New Music: Billy Lemos
An eclectic indie sound, fused with essences of the retro. It’s both charming and intriguing.
New Music: Sally Boy
New Music: Femi Tahiru
Words cannot begin to tell you how in love I am with this new UK-based artist. There’s a delicate blend of soul, indie, and sad-pop on this track which makes it one of the most refreshing tracks I have heard all month.
“It [The Weekend] takes you through the journey of being at a gathering or a social event with your partner, and feeling quite alone and distant from everything and everyone once your partner leaves- leaving you in a world of confusion and anxiousness. Of course you may find yourself intoxicated in these situations, and that’s what I am, which makes the whole scenario bigger than it already is – like I’m having a bad trip, and she’s not there to calm me down”.
New Music: Alex Banin
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New Music: Sad Night Dynamite
This duo have crafted a sound that is genuinely unique. It’s a youthful take on the dark and sinister, while still feeling quirky and experimental. More than anything, it’s an audible experience like no other.
“We wrote ‘Icy Violence’ almost a year ago today. It had been a really hot few weeks and we’d been putting the song together for a while by then. There’s a beach theme but also a kidnapping and a darkness around it. The end really reminds us of the area we grew up in – green countryside and Glastonbury. We finished it and remember thinking it was either a mess, or the first song we’d written that made sense. It was the obvious one to start the project.”
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New Music: Wuh Oh
“‘Softstyle’ is the track blasting from the speakers of an underground club in a not-too-distant cyberpunk future. The brooding synth breakdown sucks everything into slow motion as strobe lights scan the dance floor before the beat drops and the rave kicks into overdrive.’
New Music: Total Brutal
New Music: Tayler Buono
A finessed electropop track by Orlando-raised singer songwriter Tayler Buono, with a refreshingly honest take on social media.
“I wrote ‘Screen’ because I was lying in bed, scrolling through Instagram for hours, and eventually I realised I was becoming so insecure and depressed from comparing myself to everyone. I’ve had to learn to place a filter in my mind so I don’t jump straight into the comparison game, and start to believe that someone else’s life is better than mine because of what they show on social media.”
New Music: Color Fields
Conneticut natives John Torres and Scott Packham have blended together elements of indie, rock, RnB, and soul to create this uniquely raw and captivating sound.
“‘Animal’ is a song about our tendency to hide our true selves from one another, and what happens when we stop.”
Taken from the forthcoming EP ‘Pendulum’.
New Music: JW Francis
Oklahoma born, Paris raised, New York City residing, assistant to a Nobel Prize Winner, licensed New York City tour guide and a Murder Mystery business owner.
Oh, and the creator of fine indie-pop songs as well, so much so that he’s just been signed up by the iconic British label Sunday Best.
“I’m a licensed tour guide of NYC. This place has taught me so much. I wanted to write an homage, but also express how I feel, which is mostly contained in the first line of the song ‘I’ll sleep when dead’.”
New Music: Eli Gosling
Surrey-based Eli Gosling creates a refreshing, mellow pop & RnB sound that is inspired by his surroundings, relationships, skate parks, movies and urban art.
New Music: Tom Visser
Tom Visser creates a delicate and melodic indie sound that feels beautifully emotive and mindful.
“I think I was cycling with my Dad, and in that moment I felt like I was stronger than him, like a generational baton was being passed. I felt, for a brief, fleeting moment, free from the weight of any expectation or past experience, and that I had the opportunity to reassemble those pieces into a different shape.”