“If it’s helping and healing and touching people, that’s a win.”
Madison Beer’s decade in the music industry has been fraught with public and private drama. Undeterred, the resilient and divisive pop star is running towards the future while therapising her past.
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“I’m in a really good space and mindset,” Madison Beer explains over Zoom from her home in LA. There’s a hopefulness in the air when we speak. The rollout of vaccinations around the world has started to pick up speed and the news cycle’s main item is now being delivered with a slightly less depressing tone.
At just 13,
Chloe Moriondo started her expedition into the world of music by posting covers on Soundcloud and YouTube. Shortly before her 16th birthday she shared a completely D.I.Y, lo-fi album ‘Rabbit Hearted’ gaining her much deserved attention and a deal with Fueled by Ramen. Now the young Michigan native has evolved once more, sharing her major label debut album ‘Blood Bunny’.
A 13 track insight to rhythmic complexity, ‘Blood Bunny’ explores themes of lust, revenge, and self-doubt. Moriondo leaves space for her audience to become protagonists into her horror inspired tune ‘I Eat Boys’. Following that is ‘Manta Rays’ allowing you to step out of time into a pop world dreamscape. ‘GIRL ON TV’ displays carefully thought-out lyrics like “maybe I was born with something wrong with me / Made without a heart and social skills” expressing a starkly honest emotional vulnerability.
Emanuel has shared his new single Worldwide .
The song searches for connection, and seemingly came to the JUNO nominee almost as a piece.
The lyrics “floated up to the surface” as his feelings became exposed, allowing his soulful songwriting to become illuminated.
Out now, Worldwide was really born from the deep want to take the music to the world, he comments.
Emanuel adds: This past year has been a great learning experience for what it means to really manifest something and be appreciative of the things you’ve been able to uncover and draw from within yourself and make reality.
Joey Stadik wants to break free of definitions.
New album STDK is a trans-genre experience, a deep-dive into his imagination that probes the recesses of his psyche.
Recent single Regular Guy made a deep impact, and he s followed it by dropping the full length project in its totality.
As he puts it, STDK is a concept album where I confront precedent and authority head on, breaking free from my own self sabotage and rising above the prejudice of societal norms. I find that life on the other side is a blank canvas of potentiality.
Joey continues: STDK is a hero’s journey, my journey. It’s a concept album where I confront precedent and authority head on, breaking free from my own self sabotage and rising above the prejudice of societal norms. I find that life on the other side is a blank canvas of potentiality.
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07 · 05 · 2021
Alfie Templeman s new project ‘Forever Isn’t Long Enough’ is an eight track mini album jam-packed with energy.
Having already crafted four EPs to his name, this 18-year-old artist is unstoppable. Drawing inspiration from jazz greats John McLaughlin and Miles Davis to The Weeknd and Harry Styles, the album merges a variety of genres. Indie pop shines on the surface level but Templeman’s jazz and funk influences are utterly present too. This is demonstrated through an old romanticism which will make the fans swoon.
The album opens up with a bang, ‘Shady’ produced by Tom McFarland of Mercury Prize-shortlisted collective, Jungle, is bursting with killer guitar riffs and an insanely hooky chorus. To open an album with this much vigour, any listener will be assured that the rest of the seven tracks shall fulfil expectations. In the middle of the album is a lovelorn map of a broken heart in ‘Wait, I Lied’. Templeman laments: I kept us mov