From the first lyric you’re trailing Avery Lynch like a ghost on her new single Rain. It’s like you’re in her head. It’s a curious apparition as you find yourself joined in spirit with the artist. The bliss and grace of the moment collides with romantic complications in the songs breakthrough chorus.
There’s an enviable torture to this narrative, a trial that makes you feel young and fresh again. It’s that innocence we marvel at. Stylistically it’s a sure thing for fans of Clario or Lizzie McAlpine. Like them Avery Lynch possesses convincing vocal skills.
Hear Rain now on our Emerging Folk Playlist.
We found the love child of Nick Drake and Joni Mitchell. They raised her on car ride radio getaways hosted by Sufjan Stevens and other imaginative indie folk producers. Her name is meka, and her new single Temperance is a revelation.
The arrangement is gorgeous and the songwriting is refreshingly smart. There’s an exotic familiarity to her writing. It doesn’t stray beyond accessibility, but it’s like nothing else. It has an appreciation for the laurel canyon sound known to her native California. It’s also poetically brilliant. We’re into it.
Hear Temperance now on our Emerging Folk Playlist.
We love how stylistic shapeshifter Clover County blends her classic country tendencies with an influence of modern indie pop. The ingredients merge convincingly on her recent single Under These Conditions. Paired with the music video it’s easy to accept that yet another star has been born out of the storied legacy of Athens, GA.
Her voice features a little twang mixed with a lush essence that lands intoxicating. The chord progression on her new single has some nice variation to repel the risk of being country derivative. It’s a fresh vibe that sits well between the auras of Brandi Carlile and Kacey Musgraves. We’re smitten.
Clover Country is featured on our Emerging Folk Playlist.
Ella Jinks is taking it all in. Her new single This Fall doesn’t hide from the feelings that spurred this narrative. It’s in these moments you revel at a songwriters ability to conjure her feelings in song. In this case its two songwriters, as Ella teamed up with Katie Melua on this brilliant composition.
Beautifully produced, there’s a melodic reverence that tags an influence of The Beatles. Ella Jinks, not unlike Norah Jones, has the ability to take you to another spiritual realm with her rich effortless delivery. We found ourselves released in this poetic moment.
Hear This Fall now on our Emerging Folk Playlist.
There’s a humble sadness at the root of memory erased. It reaches for beauty, it’s trying. That’s its charm, but it can’t shake its immersed suffering. You weren’t supposed to make sad music unless you were making praise music. But all of that changed, most strikingly with Radiohead and then again with Bon Iver.
We hear a bit of both of them in D.Inver but in a way that’s not glaring or derivative. It’s more in the feeling their music describes, one that’s wildly relatable and comforting. It’s addictive too, and when it ties itself to a moment you want to hang it on repeat. It’s a B side so you’ll have to take it in through the video above!
The Wild Is Calling 