singer-songwriter

by GetMusic

From the heart and out to sea: Ian Cat's Baggage Claim / Purgatory Blues delivers an emotional blast of layered guitars and searing solos about the angst of uncertain romance, while his debut East Coast New England Boy chronicles homesickness and loneliness in a Wilco-meets-Britpop soundscape that's "more of a rhythmic voyage than anything else." Sophie Noel's after the sun hit the roof blends art folk, dusk rock, and "forest floor pop" into a haunted meditation on ecological grief and solastalgia. SMIC's The Upside (Of Losing Everything) offers slow, atmospheric alt-indie clarity, while Lily Roo reflects on learning empathy from strangers and buffering bars before knowing a neighbor's name.