Artists

Click the artist names below for individual profiles with more music and information.

Frog

_{“Daniel’s humdrum American portraiture and embodiment of passionate persistence have defined Frog’s sound for nearly a decade, and on Grog, a brotherly bond encourages those songwriting traits to get louder, bolder, and weirder without sacrificing any of the heart.” – Pitchfork}

Avery Friedman

^{“If you’re into intense, dreamy, subtly imaginative singer-songwriter-ly pop, people like Squirrel Flower or maybe the softer moments of Big Thief, don’t miss the debut album by the Brooklyn singer Avery Friedman. Her songs are a cocktail of anxiety and uneasy beauty with chiming, ringing arrangements that really get under your skin.” –}^{NPR Music (All Songs Considered)}

CIAO MALZ

_{“The debut EP from this solo project of NYC-via-Connecticut Filipino-American artist Malia DelaCruz is a promising set of charming, expansive, lo-fi indie pop.” – KEXP}

Josaleigh Pollett

^{“Radio Player is both patient and expansive, initially playing with cryptic and atmospheric soundcraft before filling out the mix with coruscating synth arpeggios. Although its presentation and instrumentation are largely electronic, the track retains plenty of crackling vitality, both in its quiet acoustic detour and in the grand, sweeping finale. By the track’s end, the listener is swept away in a dazzling cascade of glittering synth pop melodies. Meanwhile, Pollett’s vocal performance is similarly passionate, rising above the crescendoing synths and drums as their lyrics come out in a fervent rush.” – Under The Radar Magazine}

Tiberius

_{“Why we love it: Remember that time you first heard your favourite band? Remember the prickles on your neck and the rising chills and waves of euphoria that seemed to crash against each other? Remember playing that one song over and over, pausing it to catch the lyrics so you could sing along? Tiberius is your new favourite band. ‘Sag’ is that song.” – God Is In The TV}

The Noisy

^{“Glamorous, retro, and proudly queer.” – WXPN}

Leilani Patao

^{“Starting in 2021 at the tender age of seventeen, Brooklyn (via Los Angeles) based songwriter Leilani Patao put out a series of DIY self-releases, culminating in the acclaimed 2024 album But What If?, which earned, among other things, a feature on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. But despite this success, Patao grew disillusioned with the biz, not an unfamiliar story within a contemporary music scene which demands not only hard work in an artistic sense but an even greater degree of effort (and luck) be spent on self-promotion, algorithmic appeasement and any number of equally soul-destroying things. Many criticize this system, but few take concrete action against it, which makes Patao’s new EP daisy, forthcoming this autumn via Audio Antihero, all the more notable. A release which promises to shun streaming services, playlists and social media in order to focus on what really matters, and thus an experiment to judge what exactly is possible within the conditions of the twenty-first century.” – Various Small Flames}

Nosferatu D2

_{“This was some kind of alchemy, not to be repeated – a mix of tension, bitterness, and a way with lyrics that no one has, or will, match.” – Drowned in Sound}

Magana

_{“Jeni Magaña’s daring experimentalism exists as a cyclical theme across her solo offerings, inspired in no small part by the many artists she’s collaborated or performed with over the years…It is a record of staggering honesty and melodic ingenuity. If you’re a fan of brooding mercurial soundscapes, gale force vocals, and raptly blunt poetics akin to Mitski, St. Vincent, or Sharon Van Etten then this is right up your gloomy alley.” – Grimy Goods}

Cloud

_{“…Airing out his demons through caustic, self-loathing lyrics and homemade homages to one of the most influential auteurs of the early 21st century…astoundingly accomplished.” – Pitchfork}

Benjamin Shaw

_{“Benjamin Shaw is an outcast, a loner, a maverick and a freak. All of these are compliments.” – CLASH Magazine}

Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love

_{“Bold, underrated…truly represents Low Low’s best work—a jarring collection of acoustic folk songs addled and rattled by synthetic sounds and lo-fi recording hisses.” – Paste Magazine}

CHUCK

_{“He tells us of the forgotten people of New York City, the dead end jobs, the bottomless hopelessness of keeping a dying relationship alive….but also the romance of a night spent on a rooftop, or sleeping on a beach, or the chase for one last drink at one last bar.” – The Line of Best Fit}

The Superman Revenge Squad Band

_{“There’s something so special about ‘There is Nothing More Frightening Than the Passing of Time.’ It’s a record which deserves wider recognition, but will likely hold a special place only to those few fortunate enough to have come into contact with it. I for one am truly glad that I am one of those.” – Gold Flake Paint}

Tempertwig

_{“It’s a cliché to say that the Parkers were ahead of their time – but it’s certainly true that the songs on FAKE NOSTALGIA are as relevant now as when they were recorded almost twenty years ago.” – Beautiful Freaks}

My Best Unbeaten Brother

_{“It’s a refreshing plea in a world obsessed with irony and curated authenticity…There is an urgency to take care of the people around us, rather than a navel-gazing angst.” – POST TRASH}

Fighting Kites

_{“Spry and inventive…compelling for fans of stuff like Trans Am, Tortoise, or any number of Dischord bands from the late Nineties. The London-based group were not making punk, or even post-punk, but the tracks collected here are closer (in spirit) to those genres than to anything too pretentious.” – A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed}

Jack Hayter

^{“Jack Hayter’s haggard voice, although lethargic, is compulsive and incredibly absorbing…Hayter breaks away from his past – both in terms of personal events and past bands (Spongefinger and Hefner) but also the trad-view of folk.” – The Line of Best Fit}