Transient Peak launches on Tuesday!

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 Medium page.

The first handful of interviews will come out weekly; after the first five go up, I plan to switch to a monthly basis. If you want to read more about the Nothing Deep To Say miniseries and why I started this, click below :)

Welcome to Transient Peak!
I’m Hannah Jocelyn, a music writer with bylines in Pitchfork, Billboard, Grammy.com, and many other sites. I also make music myself, under the stage name The Answers in Between. In late 2020, with nothing else to do, I started a Substack called The Only Times I’ve Ever Known (a

Here are the first few issues, along with links to the songs so you can get ready (and also get into some incredible new artists if you're not familiar!). I've written about most of these before so I'll link where I wrote about them over the artist's name:

February 13th: Pictoria Vark and Gavin Caine break down their tempo-changing indie rocker "Wyoming" off The Parts I Dread

February 20th: Tommy LeFroy break down their densely packed single "Worst Case Kid" off their Rivals EP

February 27: TWST and Lauren Aquilina break down their extravagant EDM banger "Off-World"

March 1st: Early Eyes break down their emo-DnB anthem "Figure Drawing"

March 8th: Maria BC and ODAE break down their devastating, haunting Spike Field record, including the songs "Lacuna" and "Watcher."