Jeannel
WORDS BY ZACHARY WEG Jeannel Premieres the Majestic Visual for Horses Last month, the Dutch-rooted and Berlin-based musician, Jeannel, released her majestic song, “Horses,” and today, she premieres its equally beautiful accompanying visual. With its first gentle, electronic robo plonks and lush strings, the song itself announces Jeannel as not only a compelling artist but […]
Nicolò Canova
Words by Matthew Burgos Growing up in his household, Nicolò Canova’s parents would chase him around the four corners of their quaint home as the young artist gripped the crayons in his hands, drawing onto the surfaces he eyed: the coffee table, white walls, plush sofas, wooden chairs, encyclopedia-sized books, and blank notebooks. His young […]
Shea Diamond
Words by Zachary Weg Just last month, New York-based singer/songwriter Shea Diamond released a dynamo of a single. “Presence of a Legend,” a blues-pop anthem for transgender individuals around the world, pays tribute to transgender icon Gloria Allen and rallies suffering souls across the globe to “stand up” and strive to overcome anguish. The original […]
Hope Tala
Plump cherries ice the whipping cream, and their plush skin conceals the opaque syrup that clothes taste buds with a depth of irresistible sweetness. While this imagery summons delight and dessert, Hope Tala portrays cherries as the holy ground of one's vehemence, the collision of the material and emotional universes of self. Her intense homage […]
Rudy De Anda
Words by Zachary Weg Down to his crisp suit, sleek shoes, and warm voice, Chicago-based musician, Rudy De Anda, is a gentleman. As heard on his radiant debut album from this past September, Tender Epoch, the early-thirties, Los Angeles-born and Mexico-rooted artist holds an authenticity that is all too precious in this era of screens […]
Deradoorian
Words by Zachary Weg The crushing coronavirus and unrest worldwide dominated headlines this past year but Find the Sun by Los Angeles-based musician, Deradoorian, was one of its best, most spiritually nourishing albums. Upon a few listens, hearing such songs as the relaxed “Red Den” and the transcendent “Monk’s Robes,” one does enter a calm […]
Nana Adjoa
Words by Zachary Weg The art-pop of Dutch-Ghanaian musician, Nana Adjoa, is for all the strivers and battlers of the hard day. As her assured and sublime debut album, Big Dreaming Ants, shows, the late-twenties multi-instrumentalist and singer has an almost telepathic sense of what makes humans love, long, and tick. Through florid lyrics that […]
Arlo Parks
Words by Zachary Weg Born at the dawn of the new millennium, twenty-year-old London musician/poet Arlo Parks has almost signaled through her genre-fusing music much of what makes up modern life: information overload and urban alienation but also adolescent joy and young love. Across two EPs and several singles, the Paris-and-Nigeria-rooted Parks has established herself […]
Phum Viphurit
Words by Matthew Burgos Discovering the pulp of what one aspires to be ripens as the first step. Then, diving deep into the shrines that make up the groundwork of such a vocation follows suit. The frenzy charges the endeavor until one finds themselves under the limelight of what they have always wanted to be […]
Kohinoorgasm
Words by Abby Fritz Los Angeles based lo-fi pop artist Josephine Shetty, known as Kohinoorgasm, released “Exhausted” amid the COVID-19 pandemic this summer. The song has been a long time in the making and is a prophetic exclamation of how burnout can impede the working class. Dripping with soft vocal tones and minimalist techno beats, […]
Seafarers | Virgin Soil
Words by Martin Colino London based Seafarers latest release, “Virgin Soil,” off their upcoming album “Orlando” has left us enchanted with a hauntingly beautiful tune of longing and loss. Lauren Kinsella’s elegant voice narrates the emotions around the loss of a grandparent who shared their love of gardening, and how they now symbolically dwell in […]
Merci, Mercy | Fall Apart
Words by Martin Colino Australian singer-songwriter merci, mercy releases her second single today via Liberation Records. The toe-tapping song weaves introspective and complex lyrics through a catchy pop track. Blanc asked the 19-year-old artist about her latest release and her artistic process. Is there someone who was the inspiration for Fall Apart? Not any one […]