If you’re not already part of the dark, dreamy electro-pop cult of Lydia Ainsworth, let this be your initiation. Today (May 21), the Canadian singer-songwriter, composer, and producer shares her fourth album,Sparkles & Debris, and it’s just as dazzling and dystopian as its name suggests. Ainsworth crafted the album across several cities and many years, […]

Fleeting and intimate and profound, Marina Allen‘s new song sounds like dusk. “Original Goodness” — premiering below — is the third single off the Los Angeles singer-songwriter’s forthcoming debut album, Candlepower, and it’s a spare, staggeringly beautiful folk number — the type of song that might make you cry without you even realizing it. “There’s […]

Rigid gender norms suck. Pony Hunt‘s cosmic doo-wop rules. Today, the New Orleans indie folk outfit shares a new track called “Stardust” — premiering below — which finds bandleader Jessie Antonick turning her own gender journey into something tender and heartfelt and uplifting. “I’m a sunset ocean haze / sinking into the floor,” Antonick coos […]

Love has a long half-life. That’s one of the major takeaways from Canadian singer-songwriter Dorothea Paas’s debut album, Anything Can’t Happen, out today (May 7) via Telephone Explosion. The record — crafted between 2016 and 2019 — finds the Toronto native spinning love and longing into gorgeous, ruminative guitar pop that will take your breath […]

Last week, rising indie pop songstress Michaela Slinger dropped her debut album, Panorama. Now, the Vancouver artist is back with a new video for one of the album’s standout tracks, “Masquerade” — a super sticky, super bittersweet bop about growing up and reassessing someone you once admired. “The song is about those moments in childhood […]