A beautifully minimal yet eclectic blend of RnB and hip hop from Toronto.
Category: New Music
New Music: Luna Li
Track of the week. Sometimes the simplest melodies can really be quite exquisite. This song could be a definition of heartbreak and love.
New Music: Elisé
A raw yet polished blend of dance and pop.
“This project is a chronological diary of true events of my past relationship. “Wake Up” is the smoke and mirrors and foggy / blind view scope that I perceived as truth at that time. Thinking that our problems were minor and could be fixed.“
New Music: Genevieve Stokes
“‘Running Away’ was written during an emotionally turbulent time in my life. Finding someone I had a strong connection with brought up emotions I had never felt so intensely. It’s exciting and new, but also overwhelming. I wasn’t sure if my feelings were fully reciprocated and I was too afraid to ask. The song is a representation of how I overthought and tormented myself over my feelings.”
New Music: James Tyler Wallace
“The first verse is based off of an internal conflict of an external situation; wishing you could see the future before you make a decision. You know that this girl will most likely be bad for you, but the lust and curiosity is killing you. She ends up driving you crazy. Good or bad, you ask? You decide.”
New Music: YEИDRY
“When I was two years old and my mother was twenty-six, she left me in Santo Domingo with my grandma and aunties and went to Italy to find a new job. A year later, she returned and brought me back to Italy with her to start our new life. Many immigrant mothers leave their children to go find better opportunities; but while they may end up missing special years of motherhood, it’s because they’re trying to be the best parent they can be, working hard for their child’s future. ‘Nena’ is about a mother sending her daughter a blessing from afar; a blessing that she’ll find a way to live her best life even in such hard circumstances.”
New Music: Wild Rivers
New Music: Leena Regan
“The song poured out of me as a response to a text message I received from an extremely casual fling, passively expressing that he was maybe starting to catch feelings after nearly a year of hanging out once every couple of months. One precise and dramatic eye roll later, I slung myself over to my keyboard, started playing this melancholy little chord progression, and just sang whatever words and melody flowed out, which is exactly what you hear on the final track.”
Taken from the 5-song project, ‘The Melancholy Mind’.
New Music: Peter Katz
A Canadian singer/songwriter who’s crafted a new record after miraculously suffering from an accidental drop off a cliff; and experience that inspired him to take a new approach to music. And the result is quite wonderful to enjoy.
“I feel like my music in the past, in a way, was so demanding of you to, ‘just wait for the cello to come in’ as opposed to ‘you can just feel this.’ There’s so much that I’ve put into the lyrics, and I’m so proud of every single word on the record, but this time you can just have an experience with it musically. And that’s exciting to me, that I can make something where, hopefully, the experience of it is not just about me.”
New Music: Jaclyn Manfredi
Mellow soul-pop.
“Lost Me is about having the willpower to finally realise the relationship you’re in is a toxic situation, and realising you deserve much better.”
New Music: Darla Jade
One of those power-pop songs that you just won’t stop listening on repeat. It fits the genre standard pretty safely, but executes it really well; a proper banger that deserves a listen.
New Music: Larik
New Music: Sam Bartells
An intense sound with an incredibly raw and compelling vocal.
“The song was recorded in Nashville on my last trip, about getting clean and my last rock bottom.”
New Music: MICKY
New Music: Charlie Jones
To think a talent who’s only 20-years old could create something so intensely powerful, epic and dark, all the while still feeling like a great pop song, is something quite special. A very exciting name to watch out for.
New Music: Ruuth
Intense yet minimal dark electronic pop from Germany, with a reminiscent nod to 90’s trip hop.
Taken from the EP, ‘All My Friends’.
New Music: Guy Ivory
You can clearly hear all the inspirations from this sound, from Aretha Franklin to Shuggie Otis. It’s soulful, life affirming and beautifully composed.
New Music: Edora
Exciting new music talent from this 3-piece Stockholm group. An infectious and nicely written piece of indie pop.
“We live in success, we strive and we chase success. At the beginning of the process we wrote the song more as a joke. We were talking about how success is controlling everyones life today and we started to recognise ourself in the message of the song. It resulted in an ironic song with a relatable topic.”
New Music: Evann McIntosh
Blissfully sweet and moving, this is a beautiful blend of soul and indie. Just perfect!
