“Trxy! may have missed the original wave of shoegaze, but the 19-year-old singer/songwriter/DIY-producer is trying to revive it anyway. Hailing from Southern Virginia, he manifests the energy of his best ’90s and early aughts influences through the restless, hyper-digital lens of a Gen Z teenager…”
“For her third and first self-released album, Charm, Clairo enlists producer Leon Michels to breathe 70s-tinged elements of jazz and psychedelic soul into her soft-rock core. The results are sweetly saturated and subtly groovy depictions of momentary bliss like daydreams blowing by with the summer wind. Clairo’s intimate, sweetly saturated vocals lead the listener on sentimental strolls through fleeting fantasies wrapped in analog-tape imperfection…”