Welcome to our month-to-month sequence on new Colorado music. Each month we spotlight 5 native musicians, 5 native music movies and 5 native songs. Go right here to take a look at earlier entries to the sequence. Are you a Denver artist with contemporary music you prefer to us to take a look at? Ship to [email protected] for consideration.

As we shake off the final of Colorado’s chilly winter chill and head into the heat of spring, we’re infusing our playlist with music from native artists in all kinds of genres. This month sees a rising native act incorporate a little bit of Black woman magic into ’60s glam-inspired R&B, a well-recognized favourite delight with a strong new album that drips with disco and a glimpse at an thrilling upcoming launch for native metallic followers.

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5 Up and Coming Native Acts

Jaiel

Pay attention if you happen to like Beyonce

Native R&B artist Jaiel quietly launched her six-track debut EP, Black Lady Songs, in 2018. Since then, she has remained silent. At the very least, she was quiet till the discharge of the ’60s glam-infused doo-wop, “Sunshine Lovin’” — a single off her follow-up EP launch, The Magical World Of Black Girlhood, which was launched simply final month.

Comet Lenny

Pay attention if you happen to like Peach Pit

Because the guitarist for the now-defunct The Mazlows, Colton Kooker led the cost with relentless guitar riffs that may have match snugly on an early 2000’s pop-punk album. However his newest challenge, Comet Lenny, finds the multi-instrumentalist slowing issues right down to craft songs with a taste of ’90s different indie.

Hoverfly

Pay attention if you happen to like Audioslave

Hoverfly began as a duo made up of two cousins — guitarist Chris Golias and drummer Tony Strayer — who turned their focus to music throughout 2020’s pandemic lockdown. The choice duo rapidly doubled in dimension with the additions of bassist Carl Mease and vocalist Andy Rimer. Since then, the native quartet has launched three singles, the newest of which is “Sonder and Starlight,” which takes on the band’s optimistic perspective discovered despite the pandemic’s uncertainty, with grunge-rock pushed guitar riffs that construct till the crescendo collapses into entrancing rhythms that give method for Rimer’s vocals to take over.

Sauce.Okay

Pay attention if you happen to like Yelawolf

At simply 21 years outdated, Greeley-based hip-hop artist D’Angelo Garza, who performs beneath the identify Sauce.Okay, has already gained a powerful following, with greater than 250,000 streams throughout platforms like Spotify and Soundcloud, and a repute bolstered by a slew of native awards, together with NoCo Type’s Greatest Musician of 2021. After spending three years centered on the manufacturing facet of music, Sauce.Okay shifted his focus to attempt his hand at rapping, resulting in collaborations with artists from around the globe that end in a singular sound that may really feel proper at house on any hip-hop lover’s playlist.

Olivia Komahcheet

Pay attention if you happen to like Daughter

A current transplant to Denver, Olivia Komahcheet — also referred to as Liv the Artist — is an skilled new addition to the native music scene. With virtually a decade of expertise performing stay and a confirmed observe file as an educator working with indigenous youth, the multi-instrumentalist will definitely be one to look at as she makes her presence recognized within the native scene.

5 New Native Songs

Primitive Man – “Cage Intimacy”

Pay attention if you happen to like Cult Chief

Native doom and sludge followers, the wait is lastly over. Two years after the discharge of Immersion, Primitive Man has introduced their new EP, Insurmountable, due for launch on Might 13. Clocking in at simply over 11 minutes, the relentlessly heavy single “Cage Intimacy” offers followers a style of what they’ll count on on the upcoming EP. Beginning off with two sluggish minutes of sludgy doom, “Cage Intimacy” explodes into black metallic cacophony earlier than dropping again down right into a demonic and doomy slog that calls out to you from the depths and drags you nearer with its gnarled claws.

moodlighting – “Fake my pals are ready for me”

Pay attention if you happen to like Ichiko Aoba

Following final yr’s coupling of singles, native outfit moodlighting launched their pandemic-recorded debut album, Boy marvel, final month. The album’s 11 shoegaze-driven tracks whole slightly below half-hour, starting with the mild, two-minute opener “Intro: Weatherman,” which layers smooth soprano vocals over a low murmur that feels like an indistinguishable dialog. The album concludes with the folky “Fake my pals are ready for me,” which begins off sluggish, however rapidly builds with pressure because the guitar tempo adjustments and the lyrics tackle a questioning tone.

READ: moodlighting Delivers Consolation and Ease In Shoegaze Type

crêpe woman – “Somebody, Somebody Actual”

Pay attention if you happen to like LANY

Dueting with Chicago-based indie artist Nick Wagen, Colorado’s crêpe woman shines on the indie single, “Somebody, Somebody Actual.” Surf-rock-driven guitar licks open the observe, then Wagen’s vocals take the wheel because the instrumentals take a short break from driving, earlier than crêpe woman’s enchanting voice joins the refrain and guides the track to its zenith.

Hole Head – “Sober”

Pay attention if you happen to like Caamp

A trio of solo artists and long-time pals, Jim Adame, Elliott Miller and Ian Gerrard make up the native indie-folk outfit Hole Head. Teaming as much as launch their first single, “If I Linger,” in 2021, the trio has quietly launched a complete of 4 tracks, the newest of which is “Sober,” which comes forward of their 10-track debut album, due for launch later this month.

Neoma – “Go With The Circulate”

Pay attention if you happen to like Sea Lemon

Two years after her debut on the native scene, electro-pop star Neoma launched her sophomore album, Hyperreal. An album that was impressed by a sense so highly effective it fairly actually woke the artist from her sleep, it reveals a brand new facet of the native favourite, with quicker tempos and larger depth than her debut Actual. Hyperreal showcases a powerful sense of the artist’s identification, seeing Neoma push again in opposition to societal beliefs whereas drawing inspiration from Swedish pop icons ABBA.

READ: Neoma’s “Hyperreal” Is Caught Between Goals and Expertise, Love and Contemplation

5 New Native Music Movies

Hellgrammites – “Escargot”

Pay attention if you happen to like ’68

Discombobulated instrumentals present the soundtrack to an eery scene, that includes a housewife frosting a cake in Hellgrammites latest music video — however the scene is rapidly reduce brief by frenzied guitar and screaming vocals that flash with pictures of a snail that creeps alongside the knife’s edge, surrounded by chaos and hazard. At slightly below two minutes, the relentless video for “Escargot” is an experimental bomb — be prepared for it to go off.

BEEBE – “Make Me Gentle”

Pay attention if you happen to like Rhye

With the assistance of Maintain Music and Nature to facilitate partnerships with 5 organizations centered on environmental protections — United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Nationwide Park Service, Bureau of Land Administration, United States Forest Service – pop artist BEBEE‘s newest music video is a tribute to the Inexperienced River that goals to encourage viewers to contemplate their very own environmental accountability. Filmed by Nationwide Geographic’s Corey Robinson, the video showcases the fantastic thing about the landscapes that impressed the track.

Plainspoke – “Glad Dividends”

Pay attention if you happen to like Grieves

Plainspoke‘s newest music video is equal components surrealist absurdism and nightmare. The one, “Glad Dividends,” comes from Plainspoke’s upcoming EP, Containers. Within the video, fragmented scenes flash on the display screen, exhibiting a world the place non-threatening inanimate objects tackle a terrifying lifetime of their very own.

Fi Sullivan – “Shades of Forest”

Pay attention if you happen to like Washed Out

Denver-native Fi Sullivan creates ethereal electro-soundscapes that summon forth pictures of the the Rocky Mountains. In her newest music video, “Shades of Forest,” Sullivan leaves the consolation of her cabin to wander the wilderness, as a symphony slowly builds, layer by layer, to offer the soundtrack for the journey into nature that unfolds on display screen.

Individuals Like Me – “DOP”

Pay attention if you happen to like Seaside Bunny

“DOP” finds native band Individuals Like Me returning to the classroom, baring their feelings to the category with no shred of help. Taking problem with a smile, the underdogs prevail ultimately when a pleasant recreation of dodgeball acts as the final word showdown.