These LITM Pop Picks are reflective and shimmer with pop’s finest; featuring Daisy Peacock, LaNyna, White Dwarf, and more!
1. Daisy Peacock – The Middle
Daisy Peacock’s The Middle is reflective, full of yearning, and exemplifies what indie pop can feel like. With a delicate acoustic guitar that’s beautifully juxtaposed with soft drums and Peacock’s emotion-laden vocals, the idea behind the track is simple: it’s all about the tension in that space where you’re not over someone, you’re unable to move on from them, but in no universe will you ever go back to them. “You can come over, pretend you’re gonna sleep on the sofa / We’ll just talk, it’ll be healing and stuff,” she sings with a voice that’s both understated and full of angst. Check The Middle out here!
2. LaNyna – You Drive Me Crayze
You Drive Me Crayze, LaNyna’s latest single, leans unapologetically into a glossy pop sound, charged with emotion throughout. Tightly produced to make it an accessible listen, the track shimmers and glitters with its almost glassy sound, laid over seductive yet energetic and urgent vocals. The song carries subtle hints of hyperpop throughout and is driven by bright synths and a bouncy rhythm that’ll give you a sense of familiarity even as it surprises you in small ways through its runtime of just over three minutes. Overall, You Drive Me Crayze is a catchy and vibrant pop track – it isn’t trying to reinvent the genre, but knows what it’s doing, and does it well.
3. White Dwarf – Stay With Me
White Dwarf’s Stay With Me is a soft yet expansive indie-pop-electronica track that blooms open slowly, at its own pace. The kind of track that draws you in with its atmosphere rather than overengineered hooks, it’s dominated by an ambient synth layer that makes you feel like you’re floating, suspended in mid-air, in no hurry to figure out the sounds that swirl around you. With a vocal delivey that’s breathy and ethereal, rising up over all the track’s instrumental layers, Stay With Me has a clean and modern sound without sounding generic or like something you may have heard before. Check it out here!
4. Jeffrey Chan – Rebound Boy
Opening with shimmering synth and a steady beat that builds up slowly before coming fully into its own, Jeffrey Chan’s Rebound Boy is full of swagger – a layer that keeps the storm of confusing emotions hidden, even as they long to burst out. “I can’t play pretend, that we’re not more than friends / And so I try to hide all these feels.. So I say that I’m just your rebound boy,” Chan sings with a charm that’s confident, all while going back and forth between self-doubt and hesitation. Produced with a cohesion between all it layers, this is a listen that’ll have you coming back for more!
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