Acclaimed Canadian singer/songwriter Charlotte Cardin finally released some new music earlier this year, “Confetti” and “Looping”, two infectious singles that put her captivating vocals on full display. More recently, she announced her sophomore album 99 Nights, set to be released next August via Cult Nation/Atlantic Records.
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In the past few months, Oslo-based singer songwriter Emilie Nicolas has released a string of singles starting with “Easy” last October, “Limits” in November and “Everyday” last month. With pulsating beats and dark tones, “Easy” switches effortlessly between the organic and the digital, between soft and hard, nice and ugly.
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Grammy Award-winning band Phoenix — Thomas Mars, Deck d’Arcy, Christian Mazzalai and Laurent Brancowitz — returns with Alpha Zulu, released via Glassnote Records. The album was inspired by Philippe Zdar of the band Cassius, who produced three of Phoenix’s albums and died in 2019.
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Wargirl is is a six-headed collective of like-minded people from different backgrounds and cultures that’s as unconventional as their unique brand of psychedelic-funk-rock, on display on their 2020 album Dancing Gold, released via Hamburg-based label Clouds Hill.
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Olalla.lux started two years ago as the solo project of Spanish singer songwriter producer Olalla Gómez (one third of experimental electro trio Lux Naturans). The 25-year-old artist is a classically trained pianist, but she also sings, produces and directs her own videos. Under the Ollala.lux moniker, she creates genre-bending soundscapes that incorporate elements of urban music, dubstep, electronica and pop, making her style hard to define.
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