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Pink Fruit – “The Party”

October 8, 2023

LA based artist Ash Kristabelle paired with producer/multi-instrumentalist Dane Rivera to form Pink Fruit and they’ve just dropped their new synth pop track, “The Party.” This syrupy track is candied melancholy, full of the throbbing romance of the city’s neons, all head buzz and nocturnal euphoria while inhabiting an intimate space brought on by Ash’s bedroom pop songwriting. Kristabelle’s entrancing vocals ensnare you and have the pop hooks wrapping around your psyche. The hypnotic hushed dance track brings to life your inner “bad girl at the party” as Ash describes the song in her own words. Fans of Madonna, Grimes, and Clairo will find lots to love on this track. Listen to Pink Fruit’s new single “The Party” now on Spotify, Apple Music, and SoundCloud. Find more from Pink Fruit on their Twitter, TikTok and Linktree. Pink Fruit · The Party

B. Miles – “Backseat Lover”

October 5, 2023

B. Miles is thrilled to bring you her new full-length release backed with a full band. Titled Different Pages, it marks a watershed moment for the singer/songwriter, with songs filled with self-revelations and piercing perceptions (find our previous features on B.Miles’ release Here and Here). To celebrate the LP’s release, Miles bring us her second single from the album, the vulnerable and delicate indie-pop cut “Backseat Lover.” The new song puts Miles’ deeply emotional experiences on display with intimate lyrics that evoke a romance facing a unspoken schism, ever widening, while simultaneously being incomparably close to that person as they slowly fade into shadow. Miles’ vocals are hypnotizing as they rise and fall creating the same spiraling effect that her thoughts do while she lies awake next to her love. She spills out the lyrics with breathy intimacy, “That these pillow thoughts keep turning in my mind” even imagining the[...]

Philine Sonny – “Drugs”

October 5, 2023

Philine Sonny’s highly anticipated new EP Invader will be released March 1st of 2024 and is the successor to her beloved debut, Lose Yourself. Coupled with Invader’s announcement is “Drugs,” the stirring, vivid, fanciful exploration of a life not lived but gone wanting. “Drugs” fills your veins and clouds your mind with warm hazy reverbed guitar and surreal layered vocals. This is epitomized in the opening moments, the song strikes you with choral vocals that put you off balance and makes your heart skip a beat, inducing an altered state for you to inhabit for the duration of the song. Philine’s lyrics are vivid and yearn for the unlived shadow life, filled with unfettered whims and fulfilled passions. Growing up in a small town in Germany, Sonny’s roots are in her bedroom where she developed her sound, art and lust for a life outside that small town where she never[...]

Mali Velasquez – “Shove”

September 17, 2023

Tennessee based Mali Velasquez (check our last feature on her here) has turned many heads with her single releases leading up to her debut album I’m Green due out October 13 via Acrophase Records. “Shove” is a gorgeous continuation of that trend – the track is reflective, cathartic, haunting and lush. Delicate picked guitar lines circle themselves and lock into a heart stopping drum rhythm that creates an atmosphere that feels like an ouroboros of cannibalistic anxieties. Mali’s wavering, earnest vocals possess an emotional quality that arrests the listener, and that quality only expands and consumes you more as she layers more of her singing onto the track. The way those vocals entwine with the bass creates an otherworldly experience that both possesses you and manifests the emotional themes of her songwriting. Fans who love Big Thief, Phoebe Bridgers, Elliot Smith, Julia Jacklin or Soccer Mommy should definitely find lots[...]

PARCS – “Wait!”

September 17, 2023

PARCS‘ sound has been peculating and taking shape in the South Wales scene over the past few years. Recently the group, originally just the married duo of Joe and Elly, added members Kristy and Liam resulting in new spaces to play off one another. The group’s new creative alchemy culminates in the latest single “Wait!,” a lush, teasingly restrained dance track with four to the floor drums driving your hips to groove. Sparse production gives the platform for Elly’s striking vocals to enrapture you before the grooving bass and melodic synths kick back in making you lust for the dance floor. The new track balances anticipation and release to create a ticklingly inviting experience that makes your brain tingle and toes wiggle. Fans of The XX, Caribou, and Daft Punk can find lots to love on this succulent dance track. PARCS had this to say about the origins of the[...]

atmos bloom – “Sea Legs”

September 17, 2023

atmos bloom rode the momentum of their successful debut album Flora and moved from Manchester to South London to build their full live band. The full monty of that ensemble is on display for their latest single, the dream-gaze jam “Sea Legs.” The new cut drips with reverb drenched guitars that mesh with haunting pop vocals creating an undulating ethereal pulse that can blend into itself then emerge from its own echoing depths. The whole of their sound has the pop melodies that hook and the fun of surf rock with a vampire aesthetic, all with a bittersweet center that squeezes your stomach while you weightlessly head bop and sing along. Fans of DIIV, Washed Out, Waxahatchee, and My Bloody Valentine will find lots to love on this one. Listen to “Sea Legs,” the new single from atmos bloom, now on Spotify and Youtube. Find more from atmos bloom on[...]

Dirty Nice – “SHARK!”

September 13, 2023

Dirty Nice is the UK duo Charlie Pelling and Mark Thompson that spawned from their love for cartoons, comedy, and indie music. Pelling works closely with stars of the UK comedy scene and uses his gift for inhabiting their eccentric worlds to craft the universe of Dirty Nice with Thompson. The cartoon world their music calls home is simultaneously irreverent, vibrant, endearing, enthralling and exciting. Dirty Nice’s ear for song craft is apparent on their latest single “SHARK!” which blends the effortless cool of chillwave with the youthful energetic punch of indie rock. Manic energy pours from the spazzy guitar which is softened with a tube amp sound that is crunchy and delicious. The song bends and shifts with hyperactive vocals that deny expectation without alienating the infectious cartoon pop punk sound the song creates. Dirty Nice’s second full length Surrenderland featuring “Shark!” is due out November 3rd via Chiverin.[...]

Belot – “The Good Life”

September 13, 2023

London native Belot continues her brand of “awkward pop” with her latest single, the title track to her upcoming EP The Good Life, due out October 20th from Submarine Cat Records. Belot’s imaginative song crafting is on display as she wields a glossy spacey pop palette that grooves and soars through technicolor stars. The track is carried by Belot’s ear wormy pop vocals and a seamless funky bass line that fills every beat with an electric elastic momentum. The track delights with those evocatively inventive vocals and bass all while shimmering synths radiate twinkling star light all through the song – even Belot’s vocals find their home skyward as her singing shoots off with rising firework trajectories. Belot’s pop alchemy is working wonders by bringing in a hand clapping beat and a choir belting out our feel good refrain that makes for golden moments that are sumptuous and drives you[...]

Soft Punch – “My Head”

August 21, 2023

Washington DC’s Rye Thomas is a journeyman who has toured with multiple successful bands and wrote for big publications like Rolling Stone and The Washington Post, that is, before a mysterious illness left him home bound in 2013. His unwavering need to make music persisted, even if scraping 30 minutes of creativity in a day is all he could muster. Recording under the moniker Soft Punch, Thomas cobbled and labored for years – eventually he got healthy enough to record the album Above Water which is due out September 15th. The lead single “My Head” is a bombastic power-pop banger that pleas for clarity and transcendence to push through the beguiling weight of ones own mentality. Buzzing guitar expands and radiates through your chest while Thomas sings effecting lyrics that stick in your head and linger as each phrase passes. Every verse has a catchy and creative cadence that goes[...]

ELLiS•D – “I AM HERE”

August 21, 2023

The solo artist ELLiS·D is a multi-instrumentalist from the UK who has an upcoming EP whose first single is the twisting and atmospheric art-rock jam “I AM HERE.” The track blends some of music’s most creatively rich genre’s into a singular and indelible experience. The ambiance and colour of New Wave pulse from the track like club lights pouring from the seams of a weary building, barely containing the show throbbing in its underbelly. Art rock paints the track in vibrant and exciting colors, bending your ear and brain with curling movements, crushes of sound and warping guitars. Indie tones gives the song an earnest voice that bolsters the emotional ambiance the New Wave provides with effecting song writing. The new cut from ELLiS·D is an urban nocturnal necromancy that quickens a deadened pulse and animates the toes of any body that hears it. Fans of Simple Minds, Arcade Fire,[...]

Middle Priest – “Act Your Age”

August 7, 2023

LA-based indie rockers Middle Priest have just released the electrically slick single “Act Your Age” off their forthcoming EP I thought that I was far away. The new cut has fat drum punches that lead you into a cavalcade of guitar bursts that shine with a southern rock flair and will have you imagining a perfect summer breeze kissing your cheek. Middle Priest’s vocals on “Act Your Age” weave into the rhythm with a serpentine southern slickness that excites the listener as it coils until a cathartic hollering, “whew” in the center of the track. Their bridge uses that same anticipatory energy by tying the ends of the verses inside of it together before dropping the vocals and releasing an incendiary, hair raising guitar solo. Let this new indie group wow you with this fresh cut that rattlesnakes and rocks. Fans of Raconteurs, Kurt Vile, War on Drugs, and Wilco[...]

Sea Lemon – “Vaporized”

August 7, 2023

Seattle’s Natalie Lew, under her moniker Sea Lemon, is excited for her upcoming EP release titled Stop at Nothing, due out August 25th of this year. This will be following her debut album that germinated during pandemic isolation and found life in the 2022 release Close Up. The upcoming EP has Lew pushing to define her artistic voice after a promising freshman album where the young artist was trying on various sounds while finding that unique one that fits best. “Vaporized”, the latest single to come from that project, is an upbeat, shoegazey indie cut that is a perfect example of that sound. The new song is stuffed full of melancholic beauty, with twinkling guitar lines that tumble and cascade onto each other like ocean waves. Warm layers of expansive bass create a plush underpinning for Lew’s lyrics to sit upon, all of which are kept buoyant with a steady rock[...]

LEX – “vodka soda”

August 7, 2023

Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Alexis Onyango, aka LEX, has just released the bubbling neon chameleon that is her electro pop track “vodka soda.” Turn it on and bliss out as the chopped and screwed electro textures titillate and transport your consciousness.  Effervescent audio samples dance with rubbery bright synths before Onyango’s pure-toned pop vocals pierce the swirling maelstrom and hold your heart like the gaze of your summer crush. She sings about the kind of love that’ll have you listening to music you hate just to be with them. The production is filled with nostalgic and saccharine electro blurts, bursts, and edits that echo deep into your young heart and animate your hips, toes, and head until you’re doing a dance that feels like the manifestation of the ghosts from summers past and present. The intricate single builds on the work of LEX who has released singles “Skin Off My Back” in[...]

PYNKIE- “Plz”

August 7, 2023

Lindsey Radice, aka PYNKIE, hails from New Jersey and forges her music career when she isn’t helping people as a full-time registered nurse. She has just released a slammin’, kaleidoscopic dream pop single with “Plz.” The high energy, dreamy indie rock cut encapsulates the cathartic cruise of a windows-down music-up joyride where your emotions simultaneously find purchase and get drowned out. Radice’s hazy vocals glide on top of and blend into a bed of fast paced layered guitar, warm strings, and metronomic drums that click by like tires slapping highway spacers. The bridge becomes a rhythmic, multicolored haze with her singing falling back before snapping the track back into place with pleasing authority. Radice is riding the wave of momentum she created with underground Soundcloud beginnings that she bridged into the lauded release of her debut album, 2018’s neoteny. “Plz” will find its home on her forthcoming album Songies which[...]

Far Caspian – “Pool”

July 25, 2023

Irish singer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Joel Johnston, aka Far Caspian, has evolved into an musical auteur, rising in popularity on the back of a pair of EPs and debut album Ways to Get Out, the artist has become fully self-contained. He directs his own videos, shoots his press shots, creates his own artwork, and started a record label (Check our previous features on Far Caspian Here, Here, and Here). His debut album has garnered over 30 million streams since its release late in 2021, which is all the more impressive as the project started in 2020; the impetus of Far Caspian being as a Soundcloud feature to garner interest in Johnston’s production talents. He continues the momentum with sophomore album, The Last Remaining Light and with the ineffable and captivating single, “Pool.” The single pulls on your heart and entrances like an Elliot Smith cut, dazzles you with production and[...]