This week's LITM Pop Picks is an Alternative Dream Pop Flow with Moon Club, Stephen Stanley, and Solu

Moon Club - Utopia 90 

Moon Club is an alt pop duo building new worlds with their music. Their songs carry the nocturnal moods and magic of the moon, weaving it with mystique into their songs. ‘Utopia 90’ is their latest release that blends blues with R&B, summer imagery, glassy melodies, and jazzy pop. It is vivid and visual with soft undertones of psychedelia. The loose, hypnotic grooves unravel throughout the soundscape, lifting into the smoky vocals. Everything about it is a daze wash, a great track to get lost to, stray with, and just float away into infinity. The artists aim to elevate the listener, casting them in spheres of cerebral sounds and floating landscapes. 

Stephen Stanley - trustfall 

Stephen Stanley is a singer-songwriter and an alt pop artist with an emotional divulgence that is so deep and profound. His music holds a piece of him, a meaningful, important piece as he seeks to authentically connect with his listeners. His latest release is the ‘trustfall’ album with its title track exemplifies the expanse; of his vocal range, the world that it contains, and the magnificence of the thematic experience. The track is designed to hold infinity within it. Elastic and expressive, it stretches on, allowing the artist to explore, contemplate and play with melody, emotion, and storytelling. Listen Now! 

Solum - Hold On

Solum is an alt pop artist and a singer-songwriter who crafts a fusion love song with his latest release, ‘Hold On’. The track is a smooth blend of pop, emo, trap, soul, and hip-hop; with his vocals carrying all these styles with authentic thematic passion. Despite the depth, gravity, and intensity of the emotion expressed, the design is kept light, drifting, and playful. As you listen, you get a glimpse of the protagonist and his relationship; feel the soul mate kind of bond where both of them are everything to each other. Friend, lover, partner, family, and everything in between. The irreversibility is felt by the listener and rooted for. 

Kristy Chmura - Wake Up 

With Kristy Chmura, electro pop takes on a whole new idea. The singer-songwriter and pop artist blends elements of contemporary pop with modern electronic influences, keeping it immersive and affecting across the board. Her latest release is ‘Wake Up’, a track that combines a dynamic bass-beat line with a plush, expansive and effortless vocal ranges. She arranges them with a mellow contrasting gradient, carrying it into the theme of coming to a realization, of waking up. The melodies are so rich, suggesting a depth that you can get into, explore and cruise through. And her vocals, so vast, circles it with context, makes it meaningful and sets you on an epiphanic path. 

Layla Kaylif - God’s Keeper 

The artist, Layla Kaylif is an English-Arabic singer-songwriter whose style is forged with creativity, modern interpretations, and a strong sense of individuality. As a lover of classic poetry and prose, she revives it for this time, keeping it real and relevant. Her latest release is ‘Gate Keeper’. With a narrative prowess, she calls strong imagery to mind and fills them with her vocal emotion. There is so much conviction in her style, a passionate intensity that she embraces and maximises with her presentations. And here, in this song, she brings divine imagery, light and dark, to shape the themes with power, protection, beauty, and surrender. Listen Now! 

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This Week's LITM Pop Picks bring a spectrum of style and technique with artists like Maumaumau, Pixielated, and Bri Scully

This Week's LITM Pop Picks bring a spectrum of style and technique with artists like Maumaumau, Pixielated, and Bri Scully.

Maumaumau - Macho Macho

Maumaumau is a Mexican American alt pop artist. With his latest release, ‘Macho Macho’, he explores a fun-fuelled, light-hearted, but necessary contemplative anthem. He excites a  healing journey, urges us to grow out of unserving weights and prejudices that we carry and just be free. The track has larger than life energy, a high-energy, high-impact, momentum boost that compels the listener to think and simultaneously want to act. It lights a fire under you, reveals the other side of ego, the charisma of nonchalance, and fuels you to come on over. The listening experience can be transformative and liberating if you let it and take it from me, you definitely should. 

Pixielated - AI Superstar 

Taking the punching energy to the next level is Pixielated’s latest, ‘AI Superstar’. If you want to dive headfirst into a futuristic sonic space, then this is the track for you. There is not a single moment of stagnation. It’s a dynamic color show, progressing always to the next level of energy, a new level of consciousness. There’s dance, pop, and explosive peaks, all bolstered to an expansive vocal high. And the rhythm flows into a smooth infinity, with ups and downs. Like a landscape, it grows into the theme, speculating on electro pop like never before. Listen Now! 

Bri Scully - Under You 

Bri Scully is a singer-songwriter and indie pop artist. Her soft pop renditions are the voices of her experience. Stringing acoustics with a mellow pop flow, so personal and so intimate that you can’t help but connect. Her latest release is ‘Under You’, a track in which she explores the aftermath of a breakup where you have to unlearn so much of who you were in the relationship. It has that girlhood melodrama to it that plays into the lyrics. Matched with vulnerability, honesty and contemplative healing, it is such a special song. When you listen to it, it feels like you’re talking with a friend, slipping into her emotions and experiences. 

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