If you’re just joining us, welcome to Nothing Deep To Say, the flagship series of the Transient Peak newsletter. So many queer artists are pressured to focus on their identity in interviews, and I want to give self-producing musicians the freedom to nerd out about their own music – informed
SOTYs so far, not counting people I’ve already featured in this newsletter or profiled elsewhere. That means no Ophelias (read the profile!) or Early Eyes (read the Nothing Deep To Say breakdown!), if only because I included another paragraph about either it would just be overkill. They should totally
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Maria BC and ODAE break down their new album and discuss tracks like like "Lacuna" and "Watcher."
Formed at the University of Minneapolis, the band of vocalist Jake “Ren” Berglove, guitarist Josie Villano, and producer John O’Brien (rounded out by Megan Mahoney on bass, not present in this interview) have morphed several times since their initial music in 2017. Their earlier jazz-inflected music lead to a
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I frequently find new music by looking through album credits on sites like Qobuz. I wondered what producer Mike Spencer had worked on lately after his run of UK hits like “Feel The Love” by Rudimental and Ellie Goulding’s “Figure 8”, and then TWST blew me away with a
In the automatic transcription app I use, Tessa Mouzourakis and Wynter Bethel blend together - a sentence will often start as Tessa and then switch to Wynter. (It also switches to me; it’s not very good at identifying voices, but stay with me here.) On their studio recordings the
Learn more about the making of The Parts I Dread!
The musician Victoria Park cold-emailed me in January 2022, asking me to listen to their debut record as Pictoria Vark, The Parts I Dread. The record depicts the emotional turmoil following their family’s abrupt move from New Jersey to Wyoming. I immediately connected with the record’s themes of
Hey all, I'm finally launching this thing on Tuesday - thank you all for your support <3 In the meantime, I wrote about Against Me! for Stereogum, and posted a long essay about why everyone's so preoccupied about Taylor Swift's identity on my