PREMIERE | I, Us, & We

The Doverspike brothers from Southern California have been songwriting and playing music together for over ten years, but they’ve only chosen to record and release their first EP as a band this year. Mono, which was recently featured on Tom Robinson’s BBC Introducing mixtape, is escapist dream-pop that reaches deeply into thoughts of love and the human consciousness, taking with it all the inherent self-reflection that comes from one’s experience navigating their way through an often complex and trying world. 

PR0FILES

The sun-kissed metropolis of Los Angeles has often been a mecca for bourgeoning electronic acts, but only few seem to strike that right balance between a classic 80’s synth sound and the intoxicating high of a love-soaked pop melody. Whether it’s the unforgiving complexity of a breakup or the false security of sex addiction, Pr0files find a fitting context within their “twisted” East Coast surroundings to explore unresolved emotions through electronic music, writing songs about unforgiving emotional complexities as a powerhouse producer duo; film composition and hip hop songwriting only touching the surface of their combined career accolades. One half of Pr0files duo, Lauren Pardini, discusses the aches of writing a breakup song, and why Los Angeles is the perfect home for making electronic music.

PHOSPHENE | Silver

Recorded at the legendary Mission District and Grammy/Oscar award-winning studio Different Fur (Antony & The Johnsons, Alabama Shakes, Gary Clark Jnr, Phoenix), is the latest single Silver from Oakland indie pop/rock quartet Phosphene, recorded with the engineer hands of Sean Paulson.