Melissa Weikart makes music to heal, airing out self-grievances and finding deeper answers to the riddles of life. Born in Paris, the singer and keyboardist came up in Boston, and relocated to Strasbourg. Her music has since garnered national attention in France—she is the recipient of the Nancy Jazz emerging artist prize in 2022, and the Concours National de Jazz à la Défense instrumentalist prize.
Her new single Contact comes complete with a fantastic music video that accentuates the art pop appeal of this project. There’s something very French about the video that honors the artists roots and pays homage to classic French art films. There’s also a sort of David Lynch dream world accent we simply love. Press play….
&Tilly is one of our favorites. They describe themselves as a genre-fluid project that started with… an end. “As two introverted individuals, we’re nothing, just one or the other; we got connected through our own personal ends to create something more than ourselves.”
As &Tilly evolves into new realms they continue to crush assumptions about the limit of their sound. A lot of what they do seems very inspired by the unexpected movements of life. Some sway dark while others glimmer with a sense of cautious hope. All of that seems relavent to their haunting version of the British folk standard The Holly and the Ivy and the companion video tied to it. The video adds to the narrative and the character behind the voice. Its both entrancing and hypnotic. The spirit and the doubt all captured beautifully in song.
SCAM put their demons on blast in the video for her new single Pleasure feat. BRÍET. The song is a sensual smart pop delight, but the video is creepy crazy fun. SCAM is the electro-pop project of Icelandic composers and music producers Herdís Stefánsdóttir and Salka Valsdóttir. With their visuals they embrace a creepy side but the music is honestly anything but. They accentuating the debauchery behind their dance pop obsession. Its a twist on a format familiar to NYC artist Peaches. We can’t wait to see where they go with the project, we love the aesthetic.
