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Editor’s Picks 131: The Tullamarines, Ellur, Nadia Kadek, Sofa, runo plum, & Nonetheless Clean!


Atwood Journal is worked up to share our Editor’s Picks column, written and curated by Editor-in-Chief Mitch Mosk. Each week, Mitch will share a set of songs, albums, and artists who’ve caught his ears, eyes, and coronary heart. There may be a lot unimaginable music on the market simply ready to be heard, and all it takes from us is an open thoughts and a willingness to pay attention. By way of our Editor’s Picks, we hope to shine a lightweight on our personal music discoveries and showcase a various array of latest and up to date releases.
This week’s Editor’s Picks options The Tullamarines, Ellur, Nadia Kadek, Sofa, runo plum, & Nonetheless Clean!

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“Mendacity”

by The Tullamarines

If I say I really like myself, I’m mendacity.” It’s a kind of traces that grabs you by the center and doesn’t let go – brutally sincere, deeply relatable, and immediately unforgettable. The Tullamarines waste no time reducing to the core on “Mendacity,” the second single off their forthcoming Security Blanket EP. It’s an electrifying pop/rock explosion of doubt and defiance – a vibrant, high-octane anthem that turns insecurity, imposter syndrome, and self-loathing into one thing cathartic, anthemic, and downright addictive.

I’ve by no means been positive about this
It’s deep down I can see
the way you missed it

However I simply endure and that’s alright
I’m out of it half the time
Tried the most effective to repair my thoughts
And I’ve been pondering recently
it is best to pull me in
If I say I really like myself I’m mendacity
However I nonetheless hope that I get factors for making an attempt child
If I say I really like myself I’m mendacity
However I nonetheless hope that I get factors for making an attempt child
Lying - The Tullamarines
Mendacity – The Tullamarines

Launched in early June, “Mendacity” is without doubt one of the catchiest songs I’ve heard this aspect of 2012 – a rush jangly guitars, buoyant beats, and magnetic hooks that invite you to scream-sing alongside by the second refrain. It’s nostalgic and recent directly – a vibrant shot of noughties pop/rock power supercharged for the 2020s, someplace between Sizzling Chelle Rae and 5SOS, with simply the suitable stability of attraction and churn. However beneath that infectious exterior, “Mendacity” is achingly sincere – a weak, gut-punch confessional about displaying up for your self even when it’s arduous.

“‘Mendacity’ is about insecurity, imposter syndrome, self-loathing, and the hassle to do higher,” the Australian band – comprised of Josh Thomas, Lucinda Machin, Angus Purvis, and Benny Waltho – tells Atwood Journal over electronic mail. “That feeling of individuals leaving earlier than we carry out is a working joke, however it comes from actual doubt. We wrestle with confidence in our music, picture – every part. So we mentioned precisely how we felt, however wrapped it in sunny, ‘90s pop-inspired sounds. It’s sad-happy. Generally it’s simpler to faux you’re okay than to be weak. We hope this music helps folks really feel seen and encourages actual conversations.”

I don’t wanna inform somebody in case I come undone
However I’ve been pondering recently how a lot eat
I don’t assume I’m anybody assume yr 9 obtained me ’trigger
I’m nonetheless believing all of the issues they mentioned to me

That duality pulses by each line: “If I say I really like myself, I’m mendacity / however I nonetheless hope that I get factors for making an attempt,” they sing loud and proud within the music’s unforgettable chorus. “It means precisely what it says,” the band displays, “in that I hope I can forgive myself for being harsh on my character or my physique after I’m not feeling good.” The phrases are uncooked and disarming, but delivered with a lot drive and verve that it feels empowering – like proudly owning your ache is step one towards therapeutic. And that’s what makes this music so particular: The Tullamarines don’t wallow of their feelings – they channel them into an inspiring rallying cry; a radiant, rousing anthem.

If I say I really like myself I’m mendacity
However I nonetheless hope that I get factors for making an attempt child
‘Trigger I’ve by no means been positive about this
It’s deep down I can see the way you missed it
However I simply endure and that’s me making an attempt child
If I say I really like myself I’m mendacity
However I nonetheless hope that I get factors for making an attempt child
If I say I really like myself and I’ve tried for one thing else
If I say I really like myself I’m mendacity

That candid spirit is the beating coronary heart of Security Blanket, a file they describe as sounding refreshingly completely different from the music that got here earlier than it – and one which’s opened up new artistic prospects for the Adelaide-based four-piece. “We actually wished to push the boat out with ‘Mendacity,’” they clarify. “The demo felt actually completely different to our common fashion, and we had a variety of enjoyable with the syncopation and interweaving elements. It felt like the proper music to push that ‘sad-happy’ vibe a bit of additional, undoubtedly taking inspiration from Paramore’s After Laughter.”

“Having the ability to take that threat and have everybody obtain it so nicely has been actually nice,” they add. “It’s given us confidence to maintain pushing that sound additional.”

And whereas their music is evolving, the band’s goal stays regular: “We’re simply 4 regular folks making an attempt to be as sincere as doable and hoping it connects with different folks’s experiences too,” they are saying. “If they will relate to it, simply know that we’re feeling it too – and it’s okay.”

With Security Blanket shaping as much as be a strong portrait of 20-something rising pains, “Mendacity” captures The Tullamarines’ spirit in full: Earnest, explosive, self-aware, and unapologetically alive.

‘Trigger I’ve by no means been positive about this
It’s deep down I can see the way you missed it
However I simply endure and that’s alright
I’m out of it half the time
Tried the most effective to repair my thoughts
And I’ve been pondering recently it is best to pull me in

“Lacking Child”

by Ellur

Tright here’s a uncooked ache to Ellur’s “Lacking Child” that I felt in my bones the primary time I heard it – a searing, surging indie rock anthem that captures the spiraling expertise of making an attempt to maintain up, preserve calm, and preserve going. “This sinking feeling, I do know it so nicely,” she confesses within the refrain – but as feelings sink, our power ranges rise. That line alone hits a nerve – and the entire music retains the hits coming: It’s massive and daring and heart-wrenchingly weak, with dazzling electrical guitars, breathtaking choruses, and cinematic ranges of catharsis that instantly make you’re feeling extra alive.

Missing Kid - Ellur
Lacking Child – Ellur

Launched July 16 through Dance To The Radio, “Lacking Child” is Ellur’s first new single of 2025 and the start of a brand new period for the rising Halifax artist. A pointy, unfiltered reflection on the load of maturity and the identification crises that accompany your early twenties, the observe builds on the confessional brilliance of final yr’s God Assist Me Now EP, showcasing her present for pairing gut-punch lyrics with unapologetically explosive indie rock. The music was produced by Joel Johnston (Far Caspian) and arrives amidst a busy competition run and sold-out UK tour dates, additional cementing Ellur’s standing as considered one of British indie’s most compelling new voices.

“I wrote it when rehearsing for a help tour I did final November, after I was feeling a bit self-critical and low,” Ellur tells Atwood Journal. “I felt like I’d spent my life copying everybody else and trying to different folks for steering on how I must be dwelling my life. I wanted a music that may decide me up.”

So she made one – and it’s an absolute knockout. From the opening verse (“I’ve studied you, relentlessly… I glide ‘til I drown”) to that devastating hook (“Appear to be I’m therapeutic, I’m going by Hell”), “Lacking Child” cuts deep and leaves a mark. It’s a rallying cry for many who’ve misplaced their approach, who really feel like strangers in their very own pores and skin – a thrashing, glistening reckoning with disgrace, self-doubt, and the not possible process of figuring all of it out whereas pretending to be okay.

“I discover life throws me conditions generally and I’m left feeling like a child who’s misplaced their mum in a grocery store,” she says. “I suppose that’s what this music is about for me in the mean time. [It’s] about how I observe the folks in my life; I generally really feel like I’m simply copying what everybody else is doing, just because I don’t know what I’m ‘alleged to’ do… It’s additionally about wanting to maneuver and getting different folks shifting after we play it dwell. I really like taking part in it.”

That duality – of longing and launch, concern and freedom – programs by each inch of “Lacking Child.” You may really feel her inside churn beneath the fiery guitars, however it’s all delivered with the form of livewire power that lifts you up even when the subject material drags you down. “It’s panic and despair and disgrace,” Ellur says of the music’s central emotion, “however I’m actually good at hiding it, haha.”

And but right here she is, not hiding in any respect – providing her inside world up in plain sight, and in doing so, making house for others to really feel much less alone. “I would like folks to listen to it and assume, ‘that’s how I really feel!’” she shares. “That’s normally my aim with any music launch. At any time when I play dwell I search out a second with somebody within the viewers the place we will make eye contact and I can really feel that they perceive. Having the ability to relate to folks I’ve by no means met with out even a dialog is so attention-grabbing to me. It’s like magic.”

With this music, that magic is palpable. “Lacking Child” is music at its most emotionally sincere and sonically thrilling – a shocking, scream-worthy standout from considered one of indie’s brightest stars. As Ellur places it: “It’s the beginning of a collection of songs that characterize me at my finest and worst… I’m dwelling out my inside little one’s dream, and I do all of it for her.”

“Lemonade”

by Nadia Kadek

When life gave Nadia Kadek lemons, she made a wonderful, candy n’ bitter music. What started in a second of loneliness and self-doubt turned a glistening indie pop anthem – a radiant, cathartic launch wrapped in dreamy mild and tender melodies. “Who’re you, who’re you with out somebody to fall into?” the London-based artist asks in her second single “Lemonade” – a second of reckoning delivered like a sunbeam to the chest. There’s vulnerability in that query, together with a pressure of uncooked resilience: An intimate insistence that all of us want connection.

Maryann is a person on a mission
Obtained down in a deadly place
Is it love or simply lemonade?
Sugar rush on a satruday
Driving shift when its two within the morning
The DJ dives and she or he provides him a warning
This isn’t like it’s simply lemonade
Maintain me shut and simply get away

Written throughout Kadek’s second yr of college, “Lemonade” bloomed from a interval of non-public unrest. “I used to be sitting with a variety of loneliness and was turning to exterior validation to be ok with myself,” she tells Atwood Journal. “I took this sense into the studio with my associates Benjamin Francis Leftwich and Matt Ingram, and we managed to show it into one thing I may dance and scream to – which is the fantastic thing about songwriting!” What may have been a smooth and somber ballad is as a substitute expansive, expressive, and stuffed with movement – a music that aches and glows .

Who’re you?
Who’re you with out somebody to fall into?
Lemonade - Nadia Kadek
Lemonade – Nadia Kadek

Kadek has since discovered a brand new relationship with “Lemonade” – one rooted not in disgrace, however empathy. “The factor I really like about this music now could be the way it’s unapologetic and sincere,” she shares. “I’ve much more empathy now for the model of me who wrote it… It’s comprehensible to lengthy for love and connection throughout arduous instances, and it’s nothing to be ashamed about. We will’t at all times really feel fulfilled being fully impartial – life and love are about neighborhood!” That shift in perspective is what provides the music its endurance: It doesn’t scold or draw back from longing – it embraces it, boldly and superbly.

The second-ever single of Kadek’s profession, “Lemonade” continues constructing the world she launched on her debut “Feeling It All,” and teases a bigger physique of labor to return – one which sits within the bittersweet glow of late summer time, navigating themes of nostalgia, intimacy, and quiet resilience. “Plenty of this undertaking is about acceptance and forgiveness,” Kadek says. “I’d say ‘Lemonade is the messier sort of forgiveness within the narrative. It’s about accepting all your previous and future errors.” That complexity – the willingness to take a seat with what’s unresolved – makes her music really feel all of the extra human.

For Kadek, who describes her music as “confessional and sincere lyrics accompanied by heaps and plenty of guitars,” this second is just the start – and “Lemonade” is the candy, sun-drenched invitation into her world. “One of the best feeling about releasing this music is that it isn’t simply mine anymore,” she displays. “It belongs to whoever hears it. The lyrics can imply plenty of various things, which is thrilling to me.”

For me, “Lemonade” is a reminder that vulnerability isn’t weak point, however quite, a form of energy. It’s about embracing our longings as a substitute of hiding them, and discovering energy in softness. There’s a lot coronary heart on this music – in its honesty, its heat, its ache – and that’s what makes it so particular. It may be a shoulder, a mirror, a dance break, a sigh of reduction. That is messiness, forgiveness, and self-compassion set to music. No matter you want it to be, “Lemonade” is right here – stuffed with sweetness, stuffed with soul, and vigorous.

“What Have been You Pondering”

by Sofa

It’s one factor to get your coronary heart damaged; it’s one other to look that heartbreak within the eye years later and say, “You have been fallacious.” Sofa’s “What Have been You Pondering” is that second – daring and courageous, wounded and unflinching. It’s the music you write once you lastly see a scenario for what it was, and let your self really feel the complete weight of it – the loss, the confusion, the imbalance, the betrayal. And then you definately sing by it, belt by it, burn by it.

With glistening guitars, cinematic horns, and a molten vocal efficiency that smolders with ache and fervour, “What Have been You Pondering” is a fiery, soul-stirring eruption – a shocking reclamation of company, energy, and voice. The lead single off the Boston-based band’s upcoming debut album Huge Discuss (out October 24th) surges with seductive emotional power: It’s colourful, cathartic, and compelling – the sound of a coronary heart therapeutic in actual time.

You name me right here on enterprise
I can’t imagine I’m sitting in your room
An actual life rock-and-roller
Tattoos alongside your shoulder
My mom wouldn’t such as you
You’re blowing smoke
You blink your sleepy eyes
Kiss me for the primary time
There goes my warning
I inhale your lies
You bought me paralyzed
What Were You Thinking - Couch
What Have been You Pondering – Sofa

“‘What Have been You Pondering’ is a mirrored image on an advanced on-again, off-again relationship that I used to be in at 19/20 with a 26-year-old musician in a band that I deeply admired,” lead singer Tema Siegel explains. “Shortly after we met, he started love-bombing me; the facility dynamic gave me pause, however I regularly let my guard down. As soon as he started touring once more, his affection vanished… For the primary time in my romantic life, I felt needy and small.” The music’s title, and its burning, aching refrain, are aimed immediately at that older presence who blurred traces, broke belief, and walked away. Now 26 herself, Siegel sings from a spot of readability and confidence. “At the moment, I’m the identical age he was after we met. It feels so empowering to inform him off like a peer.”

What have been you pondering
Dealing with a coronary heart of 20 years like that
Twisting the knife in
Simply to sew it up
and pat your self on the again

That empowerment radiates by the band’s efficiency: There’s heartbreak on this music, sure – but in addition energy. You may hear it in each belted be aware, each vivid, brassy exhale. “What Have been You Pondering” doesn’t wallow; it rises. Siegel’s voice is uncooked, emotive, and incandescent, surrounded by a band firing on all cylinders. “Constructed up my urge for food, then you definately’re so scandalized after I was hungry for extra,” she sings, placing her foot down in a refrain that aches and soars .

You’re blowing smoke
You blink your sleepy eyes
Attempt to kiss me like the primary time
Caught with my coronary heart and my
Head so unaligned
You bought me paralyzed

Whereas Sofa have constructed their title on pleasure, heat, and groove, Huge Discuss represents a tonal growth – one which embraces life’s messier, murkier feelings. “Up till this level, our tales have been predominantly optimistic, joyful, and heartfelt,” Siegel shares. “‘Huge Discuss’ embraces extra advanced and messy feelings. ‘What Have been You Pondering’ is considered one of our first songs to take a extra assertive, direct, and indignant tone.” That honesty doesn’t dampen the band’s spirit – it strengthens it, making this music really feel much more vibrant and alive.

What have been you pondering
Dealing with a coronary heart of 20 years like that
Twisting the knife in
Simply to sew it up and pat your self on the again
Constructed up my urge for food
You then’re so scandalized
Once I was hungry for extra
What have been you pondering
Dealing with a coronary heart of 20 years like that

Sofa name Huge Discuss their most collaborative, sincere, and expressive work but – a file that blends pop, R&B, funk, soul, and rock in dazzling, expansive trend. With “What Have been You Pondering,” they set the tone with an anthem of autonomy and emotional braveness. “I hope this music emboldens folks in unhealthy relationships to ask their associate for extra considerate communication,” Siegel says. “If they will’t obtain that collectively, I hope they really feel the energy to stroll away.”

This music is a stunner – searing, daring, breathtaking. Don’t be stunned if you end up singing alongside, fists clenched, dancing by the ache. Sofa are coming in scorching, and “What Have been You Pondering” is an exhilarating first style.

What have been you pondering
Dealing with a coronary heart of 20 years like that
Twisting the knife in
Simply to sew it up and pat your self on the again
Constructed up my urge for food
You then’re so scandalized
Once I was hungry for extra
What have been you pondering
Dealing with a coronary heart of 20 years like that

“Lemon Garland”

by runo plum

runo plum’s “Lemon Garland” is a music of longing and heat – a wistful, radiant daydream that aches with tenderness and stirs the soul. Set in a fairytale world of shared meals and yard pleasure, her Winspear debut is as delicate as it’s dynamic: An indie people reverie that yearns for connection, blossoms with compassion, and embraces the intimacy of togetherness. “Give me firm, barefoot and muddy,” she sings within the refrain – a line that feels virtually whispered into the wind, like a want. These are the sorts of phrases you don’t simply sing; you really feel them in your bones.

home windows open, curtains blowing
lemon garland
darkish purple cherries
we’re spitting the pits into the backyard
the backyard
Lemon Garland - runo plum
Lemon Garland – runo plum

“This music is me dreaming and eager for friendship,” the Minnesota-based singer/songwriter tells Atwood Journal. “I think about dwelling in a large outdated home in the course of the woods, internet hosting my associates and feeling pure bliss. I’ve had little glimpses of this over the previous few years, however I at present dwell fairly remoted from the world. There’s a wonderful 12-string on this that provides such fullness to the music, which feels actually consultant of the neighborhood/friendship theme.”

A Minneapolis native with deep roots within the indie people and DIY scenes, runo plum has beforehand toured with artists like Angel Olsen and Searows, slowly constructing a faithful fanbase together with her intricate, emotionally charged songwriting. Written throughout a interval of isolation and recorded in a Vermont cabin with co-producer Lutalo Jones, “Lemon Garland” captures each the wondrous, poetic nature, in addition to the breathtakingly stunning fragility, of her artistry. The music got here to life slowly – a soft-lit fantasy formed by real-world loneliness. “This had been a piece in progress for the previous couple years I’d come to it in moments the place I felt actually lonely, and I’d discover myself dreaming of a time the place I wasn’t feeling like that,” she shares. Her vocals are tender and expressive, backed by a lush 12-string guitar and lilting electrical licks performed by her girlfriend Noa. The result’s a soundscape that feels expansive and intimate – an area to be weak, to belong.

plum sends shivers down the backbone as she spills her soul over glistening guitar chords, her voice smooth and delicate but no much less forceful and vigorous:

give me firm
barefoot and muddy
give me pointing
on the birds we’ve by no means seen earlier than

“That refrain was the toughest factor for me to get proper lyrically,” she explains. “I used to be actually making an attempt to seize one thing so pure. It’s simply me naming what I would like: Connection, playfulness, being barefoot in a yard with associates. Awhile in the past my good friend Marlowe, who did the manufacturing and artistic course for the music video, confirmed me a music known as ‘Firm’ by Amos Coronary heart, who’s a good friend of theirs. There’s this line: ‘your organization is part of me, and the most effective that I can discover‘ – and I simply keep in mind pondering, rattling. That’s precisely it. That’s what I would like. Marlowe confirmed me that music whereas we have been on tour with their associate Alec (Searows), proper because the ‘bestiefication’ of our friendship was occurring. Pondering of the suitable phrases for the refrain, I used to be reminded of that music, and it felt so serendipitous and particular and type of an ode to that point. It’s much more particular to have them each on this music video!”

The idealized imaginative and prescient of friendship that impressed “Lemon Garland” turned tangible the day they filmed the music’s music video, remodeling artwork into life. “It’s actually only a healthful, feel-good music,” she smiles. “What makes it actually particular is that the fantasy I wrote about truly turned actual on the day we filmed the music video. That day felt like a present. I dwell in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and most the buddies in that video dwell in Portland, so I solely get to see them just a few instances a yr. However ‘Lemon Garland’ captures a kind of uncommon, golden days. I hope listeners really feel that heat, too.”

we’ll cease to choose some veggies
for the massive feast at our pleasant desk
our desk
go the guitar and present me your work
catch me up on what i haven’t heard about your loved ones
your aunt patti

“Lemon Garland” might exist in a fairytale, however it’s the form of fantasy all of us want generally – a reminder of how stunning life might be when shared with others. “I do know that I would like the music to really feel good and hit someplace emotional and actual,” plum displays. “If a music helps somebody articulate one thing they didn’t have phrases for but, that’s form of the dream.” runo plum has crafted a music stuffed with coronary heart, magic, and which means: A smooth, gorgeous ode to presence, companionship, and care. As she sings about firm and quilts, backyard feasts and muddy toes, we’re invited to pause and picture that world for ourselves – or possibly even create it. With a gilded hue and mild stride, this music glows from the within out.

cuddle the quilt that your grandma made
mattress on the ground for a film day
we’re sipping espresso from handmade mugs
give me firm
then give me extra
give me extra

“Ain’t Fairly Proper”

by Nonetheless Clean

Suntil Clean’s “Ain’t Fairly Proper” is an unsettling, unrelenting thrill – a fever dream of stress and turmoil that builds and boils over, by no means letting up. Written in a stormy Manchester winter, the duo’s second-ever single channels darkness into a shocking, slow-burning various rock eruption: It’s uncooked, visceral, and deeply immersive, laced with dissonant guitars and stripped-back manufacturing that attracts you right into a fractured world of dysfunction and want. Jordy Fleming’s voice cuts by like smoke by fog – smooth, however putting; heavy with ache, but seething with energy. “I lay down, I watch her breathe / My mindless lamb of ecstasy,” she sings in a breathless whisper alongside bandmate Ben Kirkland’s wall of churning electrical guitars. “She would fall within the dust if she noticed me betray / So I’ll cowl my tracks and I’ll wash ’em away…

I lay down, I watch her breathe
My mindless lamb of ecstasy
I’d peel your thoughts
And snatch all your desires
She would fall within the dust if she noticed me betray
So I’ll cowl my tracks and I’ll wash em away
Though It ain’t fairly proper
It ain’t fairly proper, you say
Aaah, ain’t fairly proper
Aaahh, ain’t fairly proper
Ain't Quite Right - Still Blank
Ain’t Fairly Proper – Nonetheless Clean

The band name it “an edge-building music” – and you’ll really feel that stress in your chest from the second it begins. “We wrote the music round Christmas in wet Manchester whereas listening to a variety of Sonic Youth and PJ Harvey,” Fleming tells Atwood Journal. “Often, Ben leads the music and I work on lyrics and melody, however this one flipped. We wished it to really feel on edge – constructing stress. The lyrics discover a dysfunctional relationship the place either side are suffocating, and neither can let go. The guitar virtually talks again to the vocal, responding with this jarring power that provides to the unease.”

That stress is the music’s lifeblood: A brooding pulse that fuels each phrase and riff. “You chunk my tongue, a palm to cheek / I choke your mind in bare sleep,” Fleming confesses. “Oh, it ain’t fairly proper / I do know it ain’t fairly proper.” These traces sting like wounds left open. Every verse drives deeper into that darkish, co-dependent dynamic – one which feeds on ardour and ache in equal measure.

You chunk my tongue, a palm to cheek
I choke your mind in bare sleep
Oh it ain’t fairly proper
I do know It ain’t fairly proper
Within the burning silence, peel my eyelids
Slam the door I’m locked outdoors
However in a minute you’ll say don’t ever depart me alone
Ain’t fairly proper…

Nonetheless Clean are a examine in distinction. Fleming, from Kauai, Hawai’i, and Kirkland, from Manchester, UK, met in Liverpool and bonded over a shared want to discover and stretch sound. “I believe the rationale the music sounds the way in which it does is due to our vastly completely different experiences rising up, but we someway nonetheless had related crossovers,” Fleming shares.

The band’s sound lives in an area between genres – pulling from shoegaze, grunge, and minimalist people to create one thing wholly their very own. This June’s debut single “What About Jane” launched Nonetheless Clean’s artistry by a mirrored image on identification and notion. “Over the span of our album, there’s undoubtedly a wide range of genres and sonic moods,” they be aware. “‘What About Jane’ is nearly just like the central heartbeat music that reveals components from completely different sides of the file and ties all of them collectively.” But it surely’s “Ain’t Fairly Proper” that dives deepest into the darkness.

“Scripting this music took so much out of us and was emotionally draining,” the band admit. “We discovered that with a view to convey that stress, we needed to go there ourselves, which was finally fairly taxing. We hope listeners can decide up on that and be taken someplace related.”

“Ain’t Fairly Proper” is the storm cloud to their debut’s looking out skies – a sonic distinction that affirms their want to stay fluid and ever-evolving. “I believe that this music reveals one finish of the spectrum of who Nonetheless Clean is. We wish the music we make to have many various faces, quite than stagnate in a single expression,” they share. “Tasks which might be considerably fluid and in a position to discover completely different genres, moods, instrumentation and matters inside their music are probably the most attention-grabbing and provoking to us. This music is one face, and the subsequent observe can have a brand new one.”

Storm out of the automobile and into the kitchen
China flies in opposition to an image
Eyes on hearth, phrases spewing hand grenades
Attain for the knife, go and take my head
But it surely’s not my life as your breast turns purple
And now you ain’t fairly proper
Oh It ain’t proper

That creative elasticity is what makes Nonetheless Clean such an thrilling artist to observe. There’s even a second model of the music – “Ain’t Fairly Proper (Unresolved)” – created in collaboration with legendary producer Flood. “He has unlocked a darkness within the music we didn’t know existed,” Nonetheless Clean say. That model leans even additional into dissonance and despair, discovering magnificence within the discomfort.

With solely two songs launched up to now and extra on the way in which, Nonetheless Clean are already staking their place as one of the vital dynamic, enigmatic new voices in various music. “Ain’t Fairly Proper” is chaotic, cathartic, and fully consuming – a soundtrack to the storm inside us all.

“Ain’t Fairly Proper” doesn’t simply simmer – it scorches. It’s haunting and harrowing, hypnotic and human: A fearless emotional purge that leaves you uncooked and breathless, but someway wanting extra.

Aaahhh, I realize it ain’t fairly proper
Oh it ain’t proper
Aaaahhh you realize it ain’t fairly proper
Oh it ain’t proper
It ain’t proper

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