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Here's 21 great songs that you should try, or read my mini breakdown of each song and see which ones peak your interest!
Shelley Black - Wouldn't It Be Nice
A piano-backed ballad with a brooding, gothic progression that builds dramatically with string layers and is led by a sad, restrained, intimate, bluesy vocal performance that compliments the dramatic backing nicely.
Ri + Wright - Dark Knight
A unique combination of Ethereal, Folk, Indie, and cinematic touches that creates a foreboding backing with muddy, repeating, rhythmic guitar, reversed notes, and big toms led by great dynamic, building, classical style vocals.
Anusha - Loser
An Indie Pop / R&B track with a distinctive style that features chopped, stuttering acoustic guitar, groovy bass, stop-start percussion, and wah-wah lead guitar backing the characterful vocals that have personality and uniquely soulful whimsy.
Parabola West - Hannah
An Ethereal Folk track with Classical touches that features sustained strings, slow, funereal style percussion, and very soft background notes backing up the angelic, beautifully performed, Celtic style vocals.
The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara - The Prophet
A narrative-driven Metal track with dramatic narration backed with clear, dark, gothic, delayed arpeggios building up to intense, loud distorted sections and breakdowns with rumbling bass.
Jennifer Berning - Under the Ashes
An immersive, intimate and quaint Indie Folk ballad with emotional, soft, breathy vocals backed up with steady, light, and pretty acoustic guitar arpeggios, and sad, faint background strings that nicely compliment the vocals.
BELQIS - I'm Okay Now
An Indie Pop / Folk track with pleasant arpeggios and rhythm acoustic guitar, pillowy electric guitar, swirling, ethereal synths, and tasteful, steady, low key percussion backing up the softly soulful vocals.
Goodnight Louisa - The Deep Dark
An Electronic Pop track with dark Art Pop influences that features airy tremolo synths, lightly fuzzy chords, and steady, head-bopping percussion and bass backing up the ethereal, floating, melancholic vocals.
Gaby Paul - Bedroom Velvet
A dark, slow, and bluesy R&B track with minimal, effective percussion, pretty but eerie keys, and low bass notes backing up the passionate, soulful, restrained vocals that bring a ghostly presence to the song.
Ciara Watt - Ocean View
A Singer-Songwriter track backed with distant piano arpeggios, glockenspiel, and lush, floaty strings in the last section led by clear, front and centre vocals that carry the song wonderfully.
False Memories - Our Truth
A Gothic Metal track with piano, high pitched, ghostly, melodic synth lines, punchy percussion, and overdriven guitar riffs backing the strong, soaring, melodic, Emo leaning vocal performance.
Amy Montgomery - Away For Free
A Rock track with Americana influence that's led by catchy, powerful, characterful vocals backed by rhythmic percussion and bass, dynamic, loose rhythm guitar, and airy, rising, intensifying synths on the break.
The Famous Daxx - Quarterlife
An Indie Rock track with atmospheric, airy background layers, hard-hitting, compressed percussion, rhythmic bass, and twangy guitar melodies backing the subdued, melancholic, and sweet vocal performance.
Brune M - Routine
A Downtempo Pop track with panning, slowly rhythmic key chords, strings, chilled-out bass, and head-bopping percussion backing the gentle, captivating vocals that utilise some nice filters and effects.
Alexia Avina - How Can I Learn
A slowly building atmospheric track with sustained, lightly textured chords, delayed, sparse, low-end guitar and panning reversed notes led by the reverbed, otherworldly vocals that guide the song towards a distorted, noisier ending.
Blue Walker - Without Me
A layered, lush Pop track with elements of Folk, Baroque Pop and Soul that features acoustic guitar, piano, strings, percussion and vocal harmonies creating a wall of sound to back the powerful, emotional lead vocals.
ENNA - Write Me a Letter
A well-written and performed Singer-Songwriter track with a direct, longing, captivating, and touching vocal performance backed with piano, pizzicato strings, and percussion on the back end.
Baked Cat - Merry-Go-Round
An instantly catchy Indie Pop track with a stand-out, emotional, sing-along vocal performance supported by a warm backing of piano chords, shuffling percussion, guitar, bass, and background vocals.
Zøie X - sad girl thing
A spacey, building Pop / R&B track with pulsating airy chords, panning synths, and piano backing the sheeny, centred, melancholic vocals with punchy percussion and intense sounds bringing the track to a close.
Themme Fatale - good cry
A late-night Pop track with a woozy opening that leads into crisp percussion with a choppy, spacey, synth-filled soundscape and deep underlying bass which back up the soulful, R&B balladry vocals.
Colatura - We Run On Empty
A mid-tempo Indie / Dream Pop track with sleepy jangly guitar arpeggios, steady percussion, and warm bass backing the soft, ethereal, floating vocals which guide the track nicely towards the end segment with added hazy, distorted guitar.
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