Category: New Music

New Music: Wallis

Undoubtedly one of the UK’s most exciting talents to emerge recently, Wallis has a kind of vocal that is immediately recognisable once you hear it. With regular support from BBC Introducing, she has been making an impact across the British pop scene since her debut just over a year ago.

While heavily influenced by vocal icons like Ariana Grande, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey, Wallis’ musical style is refreshingly varied; with each single showcasing a different side to this multi-faceted artist.

Wallis

New Music: BLÁNID

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Irish starlet BLÁNID crafts a beautiful blend of indie, folk and pop that feels timeless in it’s essence.

Both emotive and intriguing in equal measures, her new single ‘Dead Men Dancing’ features a swirling soundscape and surrealist lyricism about feeling lost in a disintegrating relationship, 

“Oddly enough the idea came to me when I was watching the 80s comedy film, ‘Airplane 2’. There’s a moment where a character sees two dead men waltzing outside of the spacecraft. Though the moment is comedic, the image seemed to have an awful majesty about it, and it stayed with me for a long time. Much later on when I was writing about a situation I was in, it struck me that me and this other person were like those two men dancing. We were rotating in stasis, trying to pretend that everything was fine when really, we were suffocating.”

BLÁNID

New Music: Cesar Santalo

Emerging from Miami comes Cesar Santalo. Inspired by the melting pot of cultures that his home town represents, his approach to music-making fuses genres seamlessly to form sounds that are refreshingly original, all the while carrying a pop sensibility that makes songs like ‘IM DONE CALLING’ so easy to bop along to.

Cesar Santalo

New Music: Sophia Alexa

London-based artist Sophia Alexa crafts a gorgeously delicate indie-pop sound on new single ‘House of Cards’.

“I remember the day I wrote the song! I was pulling out words from my notes, such as “house of cards” and “bullet to my daydream,” which is how the song started. RISC, the producer, started playing chords and the melody started to come to life. After that, he added drums to lift the chorus, and I added a bunch of harmonies. It ended up coming together naturally.”

Sophia Alexa via Wonderland

New Music: Broken Chanter

Glaswegian artist Broken Chanter creates a rousing style of indie-rock that fuses elements of pop to form songs that feel both catchy and relatable.

Anthemic new single ‘Dancing Skeletons’ is taken from the upcoming album ‘Catastrophe Hits’ (out 29th October 2021), of which he says:

“I didn’t want to have an album that spent it’s entire running time reflecting on the past year and a half. Folk need a lift. They don’t need to relive the pandemic, and the associated trauma, right now. It’s impossible to avoid completely, but it’s not ten songs about cutting about the house – despite being written almost entirely in a box room/glorified cupboard in my flat.”

Broken Chanter

New Music: Anabl

I am so delighted to be introducing you to a hugely promising new talent. Australian born, California based Anabl is a 19-year-old songwriter and singer who’s approach to indie is refreshingly authentic.

Blending elements of alt-pop and rock into her sound, this artist creates songs that have a universal appeal while still feeling individualistic. And thanks to her fascination with the sound and movement of language, listeners can expect captivating lyrics alongside beautifully constructed melodies. On her upcoming EP, she says:

“My music is an ode to the expectations and experiences of my teenage years. It’s a catalog of my emotions, desires, and notable high school moments. As every age is, fifteen to eighteen was a foreign encounter. I wanted to make music in the form of a soundtrack of my life because listening to music became the most consistent thing throughout the years where everything seemed to be changing.”

Anabl

New Music: TAROT

Emerging from Nashville comes alt-pop talent TAROT. Fusing hints of soul into her sound, this artist crafts songs which are not only infectiously memorable but also carry lyricism with substance.

“In a generation of “ghosting” and “breadcrumbing” when it comes to dating, I wrote this song about reclaiming my power after constantly feeling like my energy is being used by a person who doesn’t deserve it. It’s so easy to fall in love with potential, but I’m searching for a love that will add to my life rather than take. These days, I feel like so many people can resonate with that message! It is a fun song with a little bit of angst, driven by strong guitar leads and ethereal vocal stacks.”

TAROT

New Music: DEJA

London artist DEJA applies doses of her distinctly unique attitude over perfectly blended R&B-pop tracks, creating sounds that are immediately impactful and packed with character.

“This song is for when you ditch that deadbeat, put on your sexiest outfit and show your ex what they’re missing. I’m not one to get too deep with feelings so ‘Like That’ is playful. Nostalgia from an old nursery rhyme served with that DEJA attitude.”

Having already performed alongside the likes of Stormzy and Etta Bond, DEJA is fast becoming known for delivering a soul-baring vocals with an unrivalled energy.

DEJA

New Music: LexMo

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Venezuelan talent LexMo is a Miami-raised multi-disciplinarian who is not only an emerging musician, but is also skilled in creative direction, video production, choreography, marketing and digital media.

Her new single ‘Think Of Me’ is a poignant heartbreak ballad about lost love and physical heartache. Through the use of beautifully honest lyricism, the song provides listeners snapshots into the changes of a past relationship.

“I’d just gotten out of a toxic relationship that was a constant cycle of fighting and forgiving, when I met someone who showed me it’s possible to have a healthy relationship based on more than just sex and jealousy. I found my first love in him. When life got in the way and I got sick, he gave his all to ensure I was okay. He lost himself over time trying to be there for me, and eventually ended things via text. I’ve never felt such physical heartache before. If my previous relationship tore me apart, this one opened up a new level of emotional pain I never thought I would recover from.”

LexMo

New Music: Chartreuse

Chartreuse bring a gorgeously moving approach to indie that is really quite mesmerising to experience. Deeply uniquely special, this is reverent music for emotional people.

“This song is for people who find themselves away from the people they love. It’s about working through the frustrations of a long-distance relationship although there are difficult parts of the song it is essentially a love song about wanting to be with the person you love. A few years ago, I took a short trip to Stockholm to visit my girlfriend who was working over there at the time. There’s a lot of water that runs through the centre of Stockholm, it moved in a certain way and looked different, different enough to notice. I think it was something to do with the summer light, it looked like oil moving around swelling up and down it was something special. This being something precious I decided to put into words as a snapshot of my life at the time.” – Mike Wagstaff, Chartreuse

The band go on tour soon, kicking off at Green Door Store in Brighton on 29th November, The Lexington in London on the 30th, The Cluny in Newcastle, Birmingham’s Hare & Hounds and finishes up in Manchester on 4th December. Tickets here.

Chartreuse

AUSTN – Touch

AUSTN already commands over 250k monthly listeners on Spotify alone, while still only being 19-years old.

With a significant following all across social media, this is one artist who is sure to hit the mainstream in a very short space of time.

AUSTN

New Music: Lees

London talent Lees creates a kind of indie-pop which, on the surface, feels subtle and light – but carries a deeper and more emotive tone lyrically.

‘Honeymoon Suite’ serves as a collage of breakups – within families, or with a lover – and, also, emotional breakthroughs.

“This song is just a mess of memories. I like that it feels lyrically a bit chaotic and confusing because that’s completely what I was feeling when I wrote it. ‘Honeymoon Suite’ is about the good times flooding back, trying to appreciate them, and moving on.”

 Lees’ first EP will be released in early 2022.

Lees

New Music: Areej

Hailing from West London comes Moroccan-Sudanese newcomer Areej. Citing inspiration from the likes of Nina Simone and Etta James, this talent is effortlessly delivering some of the finest UK neo-soul that I have heard of late. On ‘Guided’ she says:

“Despite being in a place of doom and gloom, which is depicted through the opening verse, the message and meaning behind my lyrics convey my gratitude for the simple and meaningful things in life.”

Areej

New Music: CHILD

Born in New England and transplanted to Southeast US, CHILD constructs a kind of sound that is in equal measures experimental, intriguing, powerful, and intensely captivating.

Through the space of just over a year, CHILD has quickly amassed hundreds of thousands in streams from international music-lovers who have fallen in love with this artist’s refreshingly original take on indie. On new single ‘Say It’ he says:

“More recently, I have carried a burden for what America is becoming… silencing alternative opinions, demonising convictions, driving a society with fear… does anybody else see what’s wrong with all of this? Throughout history, we’ve convinced ourselves we were progressing forward; hindsight, we were actually moving in reverse… so I penned the line, ‘turn the world backwards.’ This is my way of expressing the [seemingly] ‘right direction’ could actually be the wrong one, and we need to move the other way, do a 180-turn as society.”

CHILD

New Music: GR8SCOTT

Emerging from Copenhagen is 19-year old artist GR8SCOTT. This talented musician and self-taught producer has created one of the most charming and eccentric alt-pop bops of the week in the form of new single ‘Won’t Be Drinking’.

“I’m not a big party guy but I love to hang out with people and just have fun, and like everyone there is more than welcome to get drunk. I just don’t need it to have a good time, and I would hate not to be in control of myself so yeah, no from me. I just wanna have a good time.”

GR8SCOTT

New Music: Bazarian

Bazarian is the project of Armenian-Canadian artist Armen Bazarian. Thanks to a rich scope of sonic adventures (from singing in choirs to composing for TV and film), Bazarian crafts sounds that fuse the worlds of pop and dance together into a distinctly unique mix.

‘Can We Pretend?’ dissects how we can sometimes get lost in the movies we’ve made up in our heads, preferring to live in our fantasies rather than deal with reality.

Bazarian

New Music: Francis Moon

Swedish bedroom producer Francis Moon has already been attracting a growing fanbase thanks to his catchy and dreamlike style of music making. His new single ‘Let You Go’ takes his sound in a new direction, with more acoustic and folk elements. 

The song was inspired after moving to a new country, and talks about the expectations, miscommunications and disappointments that force you to let go and start over from scratch.

Francis Moon

New Music: Nicole Dash Jones

‘Lego’ is one of those bops that seamlessly blends nostalgic 80’s synths with a current edge. The track was inspired by the kind of soundtrack you would find in a John Hughes movie, yet it was initially written as a stripped-back piano composition.

After Nicole collaborated on the song with Finnish producer Samuel Hills, it began to take on a new personality, and is now an almighty banger featuring layered synths, rich vocals, and catchy hooks. 

Nicole Dash Jones

New Music: Celine Love

Undoubtedly one of the most exciting new R&B talents to emerge from the UK this year, Celine Love only recently graduated with a Masters in Songwriting & Production at Tileyard London – a central pillar of the UK music industry.

‘Twenty-Five’ is all about Love surviving the struggles of her early twenties, and embracing the next chapter in her life. It was written as a way to not only celebrate finding joy, but to also embrace the fact that self-growth is not linear; rather a journey to be proud of.

Celine Love