Every year Taiwan Beats throws an amazing party at SXSW’s Elysium, and this one was no exception. Usually, there are the established artists that we’ve all come to know and love (Elephant Gym, 9m88) who anchor the showcase, but every year there are also some up-and-coming musicians who are criminally overlooked. This time around, that […]
Taiwanese bedroom pop artist Layton Wu is an easy-going guy who wants to make music for fun. Make no mistake: while his music and visual aesthetic heavily borrows from 90s nostalgia and bedroom pop, Layton Wu’s influences go deeper than just that. That much is apparent in his killer set of Spotify playlists, named after […]
There’s something about tomemitsu (Martin Roark)’s music that gravitates you towards warmth. That fuzzy feeling is there on the artist’s most popular song, “In Dreams,” where he’s singing over scratchy, distorted production. It’s scattered here and there on his psych-inspired second album, Loaf Eye, where he buzzes along to charming tunes. It’s there again on […]
The songs of Houston-based musician Bowen marry low-key R&B dreamscapes with bedroom pop production–a winning combination that has found success for many up-and-coming musicians. But while the young musician is still tinkering around with his sound, Bowen’s music takes on a little bit of a psychedelic-edge, fogging up his musical offerings with an added dose […]
While Toronto-based musician Freddy Kwon has released a handful of singles and EPs under the name freddyboy so far, he’s no newcomer to the scene. Kwon played guitar for The Kents, a band who created a buzz with their coming-of-age indie pop before rebranding as Heaps, who make “droney, ethereal, punchy art-rock [about] time, change, […]