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Chicago singer-songwriter Gia Margaret released her disarming debut, There's Always Glimmer , in 2018, but since then her voice has barely appeared on her recordings.

As a rule, improvising musicians constantly form collaborative configurations, so I'm never surprised when a few of Chicago's brightest and most

Chicago multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer, and recording engineer Angel Marcloid is so prolific that a list of the credits for all her many projects would be as heavy as a phone book.

Australian duo Armlock dress up straight-as-an-arrow forlorn indie rock with the kind of expertly deployed special effects that helped make Alex G famous—a guitar that sounds like it's stuttering and echoing, for instance, or a voice that sounds like it's melting. Armlock use these effects sparingly, so that their music can sound slightly “off” while staying rooted in the genre's fundamentals. Their guitars twinkle and fizz, sometimes in intricate loops and sometimes in hazy clouds, and their sullen vocals can also deliver all the sweetness of a can of Arizona tea's Arnold Palmer. On their two brief albums, 2021's

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As Worldpeace DMT, London producer and multi-instrumentalist Leo Fincham has invented a subgenre: laptop twee.

Mak Carnahan and Jamie Eder play together in Widemouth, a four-piece that also includes drummer Lily Mitchell and bassist Pat Pilch.

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Bay Area producer and songwriter April Grey, aka Underscores, became one of the brightest stars in hyperpop thanks to her 2021 self-released album, Fishmonger.