This Queue of LITM Pop Picks is Charged with Romanticism with Artists like Josh Sky, Chris Caulfield, Hazel, Wagner The Band, and Nana Kottens.
Josh Sky - Friends
Josh Sky is a Minneapolis-based indie and alt-pop band with a sensational capacity for fathoming blues and dream sensibilities. Led by vocalist Josh, the four-piece outfit weave a class act with tranquil synths, dallying basses, melodic guitar, and a whole lot of surreal magic. Their latest track, Friends is a prime example of the band’s smooth lifts of sound, rhythm, and emotion. The song traces the contours of strained love with incredible dilations on romance, melancholy, and gloomy blues. It is thoroughly rewarding to be lured into its caves of sonic haze, float through the lilting falsettos and soar with the synths.
Nana Kottens - Call Girl
Nana Kottens is Ghanaian-American singer-songwriter and record producer. Known for his romantic R&B/Soul style, his work is a soft fusion of his dual roots. Listening to his music is an exercise in touching vulnerability. He explores universal themes from the lenses of his own personal experiences, serving up lilting platters of emotion and sentiment. In his latest single, Call Girl, Nana collaborates with rapper and hip-hop artist, Lowekey to add a new dimension of soul to the track. Between his mellifluous vocals and Lowekey’s rhythmic verses, the song comes out as a tapestry of incredible intimacy and tenderness.
Chris Caulfield - Stockholm Syndrome
Toronto-based singer-songwriter and multi-genre musician, Chris Caulfield has just put out his latest single, Stockholm Syndrome. Drawing from the toxicity and romanticism of the theme, he crafts a dark lo-fi pop track that is strikingly reminiscent of Billie Eilish. Smooth synths, marking grooves, and emo vocals shape it into a slow-burn of self-destruction and distortion of reality. His raspy and tortured baritones mellifluously flourishes into evocative falsettos to create an atmosphere of pain and incongruous pleasure, as the demons and angels of the mind engage in a titillating dance.
Hazel - 10,000ft
Fleshing out this darkness into a beautiful enclave of human experience is Hazel with her track, 10,000ft. It couldn’t have lined up more perfectly, as Hazel’s unassuming and innocent vocals have a wealth of somber sonic moments driving them. Listeners of Holly Humberstone, Lorde, Billie Eilish, and Melanie Martinez are sure to enjoy this deviant and individualistic odyssey in search of an uncommon and peculiar paradise. The artist fills the soundscape with minute details, each one setting up the soft tragedy of the protagonist. And it is rewarding to see how the fluid dynamics grapple with loaded themes like self-discovery, identity, finding meaning, and purpose.
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