Nine “fresh n’ Green”, ultra tasty tunes to feed your music appetite. We are pretty confident, you don’t wanna miss those ones right?
Lowly Light – ‘Get over Yourself’
About Lowly Light
Lowly Light is the pseudonym for an award-winning songwriter and producer Matt Gorny. Coming from an indie-rock background, Gorny has written songs and recorded vocals for dance artists such as Ultra Nate, Amanda Lepore, Luca Perra and others, but never saw it as his own genre. In 2020, he decided to push himself outside his comfort zone and combine his love of indie sound with some house and nu-disco beats.
The sound of Lowly Light is a still-evolving journey, from the straight-up dance-pop of first single “Lose You”, the funky and soulful “Do You Feel Me”, the chilled out groove of “Candy Lied” and and the energetic indie pop of “Down the Coast” contrasting with the lyrical journey of heartache and loss.
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Eyve – ‘The Status Quo’
About Eyve
Originally from Zimbabwe and now based in Glasgow, Scotland, Eyve realised that music and singing was something she wanted to pursue thanks to her church choir. As a queer person, Eyve felt her faith being challenged due to rejection based on her identity and this helped shape her musical path.
Rap was a strong means of expression, and in 2019 she started to feel empowered to sing and rap about subjects such as feminism, self love, confidence and politics. Hip Hop, pop R&B, reggae, her African roots and jazz continue to influence and inspire Eyve and music continues to let her express a creativity in her soul and body that nothing else does.
Growing as a new queer, Black artist in Scotland has given Eyve the chance to face her true self and also opportunities to collaborate with a number of notable figures and organisations including Cryptic, We Are Here Scotland, Mental Health Foundation, Scottish Refugee Council and more. This year also sees her working closely with Musicians in Exile, SoundLab and MusicSpace on a forthcoming EP.
Her goal is to make music that inspires, to let people listen and relate in the way they feel they can with raw emotion. Her passion for music being a universal language is what keeps her fire burning and Eyve’s future is brilliant and bright.
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Theo Tams – ‘Hit And Run’
About Theo Tams
Theo Tams is rediscovering his identity as an artist. With his upcoming EP, the Canadian singer/songwriter demonstrates a remarkable command of R&B-laced pop music, his silky tenor the unwavering guiding light. As evidenced on lead single, “Therapy,” a sticky mid-tempo jam, Tams slides across the melody with an enrapturing charm, and his vulnerability is as much on display.
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Jen Ash – ‘Crush on You’
About Jen Ash
Jen Ash is a soulful pop/r&b artist, born in Lebanon and raised in France. After ending her professional basketball career, she decided to follow her true path, moving to Los Angeles to pursue her music career. She has been performing since 2018 in the City of Angels.
Her influences come from the 90’s, with her goal being to create music that connects with and inspires listeners. She has learned to explore music on her own… what an amazing and tumultuous road it has been.
Her songwriting channels into past and present experiences and future desires, with a splash of imagination. With the ability to create in French and English her sultry vocals will take you on a memorable journey.
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Drama Dolls – ‘I Hate Your Face’
About Drama Dolls
The trio known as Drama Dolls was formed when Scrambles called Doc Egg and TKat to jam and let the lid fly with unabashed punk steam. Three women in their 50s just rocking with reckess abandon. The LA band hasn’t looked back since that fateful January evening.
Their sound is often described as Hole meets Go-Go’s with a touch of legendary Gilda Radner. They caught attention with their debut EP, Five, which was featured on the Rodney Bingenheimer Show as well as spent time in the Top 20 on DJ Gidget/ Woody Radio. They have also had write ups in GigRadar, HRMNY Presents, and others. Drama Dolls also performed at Paramount Pictures’ Rocket Man Grammy party.
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Doc Backer – ‘Twin Gods of Spines and Compassion’
About Doc Backer
DOC BACKER croons & wails over electronic-folk, broods & howls over dark pop jazz, raps & spits verses harder than any contemporary rapper of his generation, and makes bigger arena rock anthems than any band in the past 20 years. Song-to-song, every album is completely unpredictable — anything can & will happen.
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Rob Jones & The Restless Dream – ‘Castles’
About Rob Jones & The Restless Dream
Brought up on a staple diet of Dylan, Springsteen, Seeger and Petty, Rob Jones abandoned his post as a disorganized Secondary-School English teacher during the Great Reset of 2020-2021. His decade spent as a weekend rockstar entertaining drunk bridesmaids and disinterested bar-staff had instilled an appreciation for the hinges and nails of great songwriting – he just needed a band.
Luckily, he had built a social circle by then of some of the most talented players in Greater Manchester and somehow managed to beg/bribe them into bringing his songs to life as The Restless Dream.
Featuring a core line-up of Alan Taylor on drums, Josh Cavanagh-Brierley on bass guitar, Danny Wellens on keys and Dan Catherall on lead guitar, the band began rehearsals and birthed the Castles EP: their first release.
Combining lyrics about life, love and the state of 30-something disillusionment with whistleable choruses and timeless musicianship, the band are well through the production stage on their follow up EP, ‘Trees’, which will be released before the end of 2022.
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Pet Snake – ‘Jacket’
About Pet Snake
Pet Snake is the new solo project of songwriter Evelyn Halls (Clean Cut Kid). After years of playing and writing for others, Ev was determined to create a solo project that was honest, personal and reflective of the music that has shaped her. Drawing influence from all of her favourite genres from bedroom pop to alternative folk to doses of early 00’s emo, Pet Snake was introduced to the world with debut single ‘Smile or Die’ in June 2022.
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Cumulus – ‘Risky Business Feeling’
About Cumulus
Cumulus is the creative outlet for musician Alexandra Lockhart, who’s past two albums have won wide ranging praise from the likes of Stereogum, Interview, Consequence, PASTE, KEXP, Brooklyn Vegan, Seattle Weekly, The Stranger, and NPR Music’s All Songs Considered who lauded the “straight ahead pop” found on her most recent album Comfort World. In tandem with the album announcement, Cumulus is also sharing the new single “Sunbeam,” a warm and inviting blanket of lush guitar tones that builds into a bombastic and bittersweet observance of the obstacles we can put ourselves through when we don’t feel fully deserving of love. It’s a mourning of the time wasted dwelling on the past, with an appreciation of how beautiful it is to be fully vulnerable and open to another human.
Gratitude and the bittersweetness of learning from the past are in the undercurrent of every song on Something Brighter. What a beautiful thing to make mistakes and learn from them; to heal wounds, to love deeply, and to dance in your underwear. Despite being written and recorded during some of the scariest and darkest of times, these songs unequivocally reach for the light.
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Christos Doukakis