Tag: Indie Mixtape 20

Indie Mixtape 20: Babehoven Embraces Stillness On ‘Water’s Here In You’

Babehoven’s music incorporates stillness while gently, encouragingly nudging you forward. The indie-folk duo of songwriters Maya Bon and Ryan Albert creates a space where you can sit for a while, reflecting on how you’ve arrived at your present moment while granting you the time to contemplate where you’re headed next. Water’s Here In You, their […]

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Indie Mixtape 20: Caleb Landry Jones Leans Into Off-Kilter Playfulness On ‘Hey Gary, Hey Dawn’

The actor-to-psych-rock pipeline is weirdly niche yet more common than you might think. There was Joe Keery, the Stranger Things actor who played in Post Animal until 2019. Now, we have Caleb Landry Jones, who has been in films like Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Get Out, and The Florida Project, heading down that pipeline. […]

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Indie Mixtape 20: Mei Semones Balances Strife And Utopia On ‘Kabutomushi’

On Kabutomushi, the latest EP from math rock-meets-bossa nova artist Mei Semones, tales of strife and utopia coexist. Whether the Brooklyn-based jazz guitarist lets go of a long-term friendship on “Wakare No Kotoba” (Japanese for “parting words”) or envisions a pastoral paradise on “Inaka,” (Japanese for “countryside”) Semones allows the space for a wide spectrum […]

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Indie Mixtape 20: gglum Gets Off To A Scorching Start On ‘The Garden Dream’

Secretly Canadian has been a tastemaking label for years now. So, when they sign a new artist, you should probably pay attention. On that front, one of the latest additions to their roster is gglum, who Secretly welcomed aboard in late 2023. gglum, a pseudonym for London-born songwriter Ella Smoker, didn’t waste any time making […]

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