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1w ago
Ruby Gill
Touch Me There
Born in Johannesburg but now based in Naarm/Melbourne, Ruby Gill is a breakthrough musician who has received coverage from triple j and BBC 6 Music, NME, Clash and the Independent. On Touch Me There, Gill is unveiling what she calls her ‘most special creation’.
A raw piece of anti-folk, Touch Me There bristles with authenticity and vulnerability. Gill wrote the song for herself, and it represents the moment where she first came out to herself, sitting writing the lyrics on a riverbank.
The song’s production and style is relatively simple — Gill’s vocals sung against a ..read more
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2w ago
Ian McFarland
Hearts Fall In Line
The latest single from Ian McFarland represents a departure from his usual sound, citing a musical rebrand as leading to a repositioning from ‘punk and edge’ towards pop and dance-ability.
The resulting sound, at the fore on Hearts Fall In Line, is warm and textural. The song opens with arch, fuzzy guitars as McFarland produces a slightly whimsical vocal. The result has just a dash of the nostalgic feeling of something like Smashing Pumpkins’ 1979. Having gradually opened up, the short chorus at the thirty-second mark transitions the song into a kaleidoscopic ..read more
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3w ago
Avery Friedman
Flowers Fell
The latest single from Brooklyn-based musician Avery Friedman opens with soft guitars and hushed harmonies, a layered blanket of sound that ushers in a fragile vocal. Flowers Fell finds more stable footing as its solid drum beat cautiously thumps out, like feet testing the ground. Avery’s music here floats on a complex ocean of noise — distortion and fragments glimmer, but the overall texture pulls together to create a sense of buoyancy.
Having originally felt that songwriting was something reserved for other people, Friedman began taking music seriously following ..read more
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1M ago
HunBjørn
Love Me Harder
With smooth-yet-android-like bleeps and analogue synth bass tones, HunBjørn’s latest single Love Me Harder opens with a cool, stripped back electronic aesthetic. Combining those with HunBjørn’s shimmering vocals serves to enhance her sense of humanity, but rather than appearing vulnerable amidst so much technology, she sounds augmented, emboldened, and enhanced by it. It is as though those synthesisers and drum patterns have adhered themselves to her skin, a form of cybernetic armour.
HunBjørn has spent the past year establishing a collection of songs tackling ‘sensiti ..read more
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1M ago
Mins
HWYGO
As the year unfolds before us, a blank page of possibility and moderate anxiety, Natherlands musician Mins is here with his second release, and BlackPlastic’s first song of the 2025.
Opening with soft synths, muted guitars and an earnest falsetto vocal, HWYGO is restrained as it gradually builds to a drop, one-minute in, which sees propulsive percussion establish a sense of momentum. Mins’ vocal performance culminates in a distinctively hushed shout of the song’s titular reference, “How would you get out?”.
The escape portrayed here is in reference to moving on from relationships a ..read more
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2M ago
Sasha & The Bear
7.5 Years
Having already appeared on BlackPlastic’s pages earlier this year and back in 2023, duo Sasha Daniel and Dov Igel are back again, sneaking in just before the hammer falls on 2024 with another introspective piece of melancholic pop.
On their new single, 7.5 Years, Sasha gives voice to the process of grieving that comes with a break-up, and the overwhelming sense of loss. As she lays out in the song’s chorus, the feeling of disconnection results in a painful experience of being lost and directionless… The anchors and plans associated with a long-term relationship ..read more
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2M ago
B. Miles
Xmas Sox
My holiday song vibe is generally on the more reflective end of the spectrum — Wizzard have their place, but I’m more likely to be quietly playing Joni Mitchell’s River, morosely exploring my sadness, at the happiest time of year. Christmas is a time to think about the connections that are important to us, but I also find myself thinking about those people that we don’t get to share the season with.
The new single from New York musician B. Miles, Xmas Sox, exists in that same headspace. Emotive, delicate vocals hang like baubles in a tree, as soft instrumentation casts a fai ..read more
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2M ago
Tonia
Harmony
Combining candid lyrics with fuzzy instrumentation, Liverpool-based artist Tonia has just unveiled her latest single, Harmony. With a sound that leverages melodic harmonies (of course), whilst embracing traditional instrumentation, the result is a bright and authentic take on modern pop music.
With punchy, reverb-heavy drums, and muted, low-slung bass, Harmony displays a kind of sonic high dynamic range… Stacked vocals, piano keys and grungy guitars all ring out at once, yet exist in enough individual space to allow you to pick them out. The crisp, playful drum pattern that form ..read more
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2M ago
Lenn
Older Sister
Hailing from Hertfordshire in the UK, Lenn grew up in a small town surrounded solely by Christian music. It was only in her teenage years that she began to discover the variety of music out there. This relatively late exposure to popular music has led to her drawing her primary inspiration from contemporary musicians, including Bon Iver, James Blake, Banks, SZA, and FKA Twigs, rather than more historical ones. The result is a musical style that is crisply modern, yet emotionally deep.
Now based in Bristol, and having performed as vocalist on a sold-out UK tour for Icarus, Le ..read more
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2M ago
Halo Kitsch
Between Your Teeth
Challenging the stereotype of the flawless ‘it girl’ stereotype, LA pop artist Halo Kitsch’s new single takes the experience of evolving from jealousy to self-assurance and distills it into a perfect three-minute pop punk record.
Kitsch’s found inspiration for Between Your Teeth in her experience of suddenly being thrust into the limelight as a result of her first experience of internet virality, as she explains:
‘In the midst of those very humbling months on social media, faced with constant negativity, I found myself suddenly right back in the cyclical phases ..read more