Boston, USA-based singer songwriter Jodi Heights first came to my attention at the beginning of this year thanks to her uniquely wonderful pop track White Knight. Since then she’s been all over our pages, with three subsequent single releases. It was only a matter of time before we had her on again, this time through her beautifully ethereal track Aurora.
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Based in Norway with Norwegian-Ghanaian heritage, Akuvi is a pop and R&B artist who brings something of her roots to her music. Her latest tells the story of a complicated break up from a “situationship”, as she puts it. It’s called What We Are.
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Ink Sticks & Stones, real name Ai Rei Dooh-Tousignant, is a Toronto, Canada-based neoclassical composer who I first discovered for the blog through her beautifully put-together EP Vaste. In her latest piece, she turns tragedy into gold, writing it during a time when she was recovering from a brain injury. It’s called Catharsis.
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Maxim is the new collaborative album between Worthing-based folk pop artist Drew Worthley and York’s own No Spinoza, real name Thomas Pearson. With ten tracks all reimagining childhood nursery rhymes, it seemed to be an intriguing prospect. Here’s my track by track review.
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Sunflower Summit is an acoustic folk singer songwriter based in Chicago, USA who I first discovered in the Autumn of last year. I was instantly drawn in by her way with words, infusing her track Become Undone with a sense of physical place and the sensation of exploration. Now she’s back with a new one. It’s called To Love Myself.
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Justin Larkin is an American folk and acoustic singer songwriter whose new country blues track No Gravestone caught my attention.
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Alcie Bela is a British singer songwriter who takes her cues from the likes of Marina, Daughter and Florence & The Machine. Her debut EP has just landed, as has the feature single from it, Checkmate. Hear it for the first time anywhere here on York Calling.
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Colton Bryan was a British experimental jazz musician who unfortunately passed before I heard him for the first time. One can only imagine where his talent would have taken him, as evidenced by his track Fondlei.
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Remy Boccalatte is an Australia-based folk singer songwriter who explores the ever changing world around him in his poetic new track Kodama.
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