Category: New Music

New Music: Tramp Stamps

A refreshingly bold outfit hailing from Nashville, Tramp Stamps are here to shake things up with an unfiltered new voice for today’s pop punk landscape.

Armed with awesome melodies and sharp productions, Tramp Stamps tackle societal ills like white-boy privilege and fragile masculinity through their lyricism in a uniquely fun and charming way.

“I’d love it if our music could give women space to be vulgar and silly and have a lot of fun with it, the same way that men have for so long. We want to remind everyone that being empowered doesn’t have to feel so heavy all the time – you can show that other, lighter side of yourself, and still say something important.” – Maino, Tramp Stamps

Tramp Stamps

New Music: CRITTER

While CRITTER seem like an unlikely duo (consisting of a folk performer and former rap producer), together they make some of the most enjoyable pop you’ll experience all week. It’s pure joy, and I for one can’t wait to see what they come up with next.

CRITTER

New Music: southernwade

Hailing from Dallas, southernwade is a singer, songwriter, and producer who crafts a subtle blend of dreamy indie and pop that is both mesmerising and totally charming in equal measure.

“I look forward to what the future holds, to growing every day – translating my passion, personal experiences, and emotions into art.”

southernwade

New Music: CASUAL

Amsterdam-based duo CASUAL take a modern-day approach towards blending 70’s disco and soul with late 90’s hip-hop bounce, to create a sound that feels fresh, playful and fun.

“‘Celebrate’ is best listened to while wearing your bathrobe and dancing around the house like Morgan Freeman drinking extraordinary red wine.”.

CASUAL

New Music: Avalan


A multi-talented artist hailing from Amsterdam, Avalan (Valentijn Hoogwerf) is a DJ, producer and singer.

While still only 24-years old, he performed ‘World We Know’ at the opening of last year’s AMF presents Top 100 DJs production to an audience of seven million viewers from across the world. It’s safe to say that if there’s one name to watch out for from the Netherlands, it’s Avalan.

“The song is about being stuck at home quarantining your way to a better future. Sad but hopeful, this song encourages people to fight themselves through the hard times of today and giving them hope for a better future.”

Avalan

New Music: Debranch

A beautifully structured Scandinavian sound that fuses an essence of melancholy into the subtle beats of dreamy dance-pop.

‘dancing away from you’ gives the listener feelings of both introspection and euphoria in equal measures.

“The lyrical content consists of a relationship going back and forth as a never ending cycle.”

Debranch

New Music: Gimme Gimme

A sister and brother band hailing from Australia, Esther and Will grew up in a small country town in New South Wales before moving to Melbourne and Berlin respectively.

Wanting to hang out and play more, they booked shows all across Europe and toured up and down the East and West coasts of Australia, selling out venues and creating a buzz for their playful and loveable style of indie-pop.

“‘Fatal.Attraction’ is a track written about the holy trinity of tins, darts and breaking hearts. It brings to light love hate relationships, the desire for a puff after a sip and addictions of all kinds.”

Gimme Gimme

New Music: Orions Belte

A refreshingly original sound from Norwegian 3-piece outfit Orions Belte. Their trademark style of blending underground pop, psych, rhythmic instrumentation and world music creates a mysterious yet infectious mix of sounds which are totally mesmerising to experience.

“We feel like we have a really strong connection between us. That’s why we can write stuff on the fly and record whole songs in one take and use all the parts from all three of us.” – Blomstrøm, Orions Belte

Orions Belte

New Music: Nordi Blu

A stunning combination of pop-rock and gospel with a hugely powerful vocal. ‘Eye Of The Hurricane’ is a song that is elevated yet deeply powerful; moving you with it’s epic grandness.

Having already achieved recognition in the past by advancing to the quarter-finals of The Voice of Germany, Nordi Blu is now on course for world domination through her unmistakably unique style of music making.

Nordi Blu

New Music: EXUM

Credit: Chelsea Dacosta

Track of the week. There’s truly no other song like ‘Dark Kept Secret’ out there right now. And that makes EXUM one of the most promising talents for me so far this year.

A luscious fusion of indie, pop and orchestral tones come together in the most majestic way you could imagine. It’s a sound that feels future-forward while still retaining an essence of timelessness.

EXUM

New Music: Maia Onda

A phenomenally talented Austrian newcomer, singer-songwriter Maia Onda introduces herself to the world with the release of ‘Dead Plants’.

Still only 19-years old, this talent possesses a captivating vocal tone with which she delivers vivid lyricism, over a production that carries hints of pop, soul and jazz.

Maia Onda

New Music: S. E. Webster

A hazy and nostalgic blend of indie-folk and rock from a talent who was born and raised in the deserts of Southern California.

‘How Long?’ is song that’s all about a jealous lover’s bargaining phase of the end of a relationship. It’s a track that feels modern yet also carries a sense of timelessness with it, which is a pretty hard accomplishment to perfect as well as Webster has done.

S. E. Webster

New Music: Amber Ryann

A perfect fusion of hip hop and pop from Los Angeles based artist Amber Ryann. Music runs in the family with this talent (her dad was a hip-hop producer), and for that you can hear a sense of confidence come through on this track that wins you over immediately. ‘Bad‘ was written as a way to look in to the negative effects of hanging onto a toxic relationship; something all too many of us know about!

Amber Ryann

New Music: Jae Soto

A New York City native who currently resides in Brooklyn, Jae Soto’s voice is the first thing that catches your attention when you press play to this song.

It’s got a gorgeously unique tone that glides all the way throughout ‘catholic school’, a self-produced song that seamlessly blends funk, RnB and pop into something quite magical.

Jae Soto

New Music: KiD RAiN

You’ll struggle to find a song that stays in your head as long as this new release from British talent KiD RAiN will. Pop at it’s purest, this is a catchy, playful, and totally infectious slice of joy.

“If someone asked me to sum up KiD RAiN, I would just show them this song. It captures everything I want to be as an artist in 3 minutes. Fun, energetic, not taking myself too seriously. This isn’t a song for the “cool kids”, it’s a song for everyone else.”

KiD RAiN

New Music: post car crash scene

A refreshingly original talent from the UK, post car crash scene’s approach to music making with ‘hindsight.‘ blurs the lines between rock, hip-hop, rap and pop.

This blend of genres gives the track a sense of uniqueness that is wonderfully captivating.

“Lyrically, the song is about the trappings of today’s world and the struggle for motivation.”

post car crash scene

New Music: Low Girl

British alt-pop newcomer Low Girl has come up with one of my favourite releases this week. She’s already caused quite the stir with previous single ‘ICU‘, which garnered attention from the likes of BBC Introducing, BBC 6Music and Radio X.

‘Big Now‘ was born out of a frustration over climate change that had been building for years, and was finally sparked by the ‘every man for himself’ attitude Low Girl saw all around her at the start of the pandemic last year.

“Above all, this song is a plea to be heard and understood. It’s about destroying the planet for wealth that you don’t take to your grave. And it’s to remind myself to fight apathy whenever I feel it stirring inside me.”

Taken from the debut EP ‘Big Now’ which is set for release on 30th April 2021.

Low Girl

New Music: Arthur Valentine

A hugely promising artist hailing from Ireland, Arthur Valentine is a name to watch out for. This up and coming musician and producer blends elements of RnB and pop together to form something that feels familiar yet new.

While on the surface, ‘Dream About You‘ seems understated and stripped-back, it’s a deceptively intricate sound that was written, recorded and produced in Valentine’s home studio over an 18-month period.

 Taken from the forthcoming debut EP ‘Splitscreen’.

Arthur Valentine