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Almost Waking lands sweetly between Bill Orcutt and Mabe Fratti's jagged edges and melodic balm
Ain’t are on the rise
In May 2024, I took a video of myself lip-syncing to Lost the Breakup by Maisie Peters. Not, in itself, unusual - I’d been rinsing The Good Witch for months, still riding the emotional aftershocks of my own breakup a year and a half earlier. The unusual part was where I was: a discount kitchenware store in Dubai. Standing in the Tupperware aisle, I sent it to my friend: “Why the fuck are they playing The Good Witch in here???”
Gia Margaret’s Romantic Piano was the first instrumental album that actress and musician Maya Hawke connected with; hearing Hawke’s voice makes Chicago songwriter Margaret want to sing. In conversation, the two artists discuss trusting in their joy centre as they battle an off-and-on relationship with their in-built instrument.
Sofia Isella is tearing up the playbook to surrender control to the forces that write through her – and finding something close to joy in the wreckage.
Amid a landscape built on aesthetics, Mae O'Neill is seeking depth outside of image and reckoning with exploitation, identity, and the long road to self-possession as maehem99.
Darlington-born Pollyfromthedirt is making skewed, clunky outsider pop driven by a deliberate step away from the industry and indie elitism.
The power of collaboration and necessity of shared human experience helped the California-born songwriter, producer and DJ Avalon Emerson find her next creative pivot.
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