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Cate Tomlinson impresses with the brand new track Notes App Apology. A song about gaslighting, you’ll love if you’re in the mood for something haunting.

The track was co-produced with Justin Stanley (Nikka Costa, Prince, Paul McCartney, Sheryl Crow). Tomlinson says “Most of my other songs have big choruses that are kind of in your face, and Notes is a lot more laid back and I feel isn’t trying to prove itself as much.”

The 20-year-old songwriter hails from San Francisco and is now based out of Boston at Northeastern University.

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Look out for Victory singer-songwriter from Calgary and the track UP. You’ll like if you love Ariana Grande, Chloe, Victoria Monet, and Tinashe

The 20 year old Classically trained by one of Calgary’s top opera singers draws her inspiration from artists like Justin Bieber, Adele, SZA, ChloexHalle, Jazmin Sullivan, Victoria Monet & Arianna Grande.

“I wrote Up in my room when I was 16” says Victory

She landed on Apple Music’s New In R&B, Breaking R&B & Northern Vibe playlists, as well as Spotify’s Playlists : Fresh Finds, Summer Hits, Pop Favourites, and Daily Lift

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Look out for Julianna Joy and the track Prescriptions. You’ll love if you like spacey, ambient, or Spotify Dream Pop. It’s the third single from my upcoming EP Garden of Eden, produced with Teddy Geiger (Shawn Mendes, Maroon 5, Lizzo). Zane Lowe premiered the track on his show on Apple Music 1.

Joy says “Prescriptions’ comes from a place that I know everybody who has ever been medicated has been,”. She also says, “I started taking anti-depressants my senior year of high school due to crippling depression and anxiety that kept me home sometimes from school. This song is about the struggle with acceptance of being on meds, and how the first few months of adjusting and figuring out what is best for your body affects your relationships. It’s hard knowing what is right for your body, especially when there are so many different options to medication and treatment. I am just lucky enough to have found a med that worked for me and that I had access in the first place.”

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Look out for 19 year old Matty Reynolds and the indie pop track bed head fever.

“I wrote this song about feeling exhausted from going out but also having the fear of missing out on things” says Reynolds.

Taking cues from Jeremy Zucker and Jon Bellion everything changed for the kid when he created a TikTok account at 17. He started gaining attention with the debut single “Last September” and hotel party,” which garnered over 1 million streams in 1 week.

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Look out for Restless Modern and the new track On and On which was co-produced Co-produced with Peter Thomas (P!nk, Betty Who, Allie X).

The 25 year-old Wisconsin-based indie artist released several singles that has garnered over 30 million streams on Spotify and were highlighted by Billboard, Lyrical Lemonade, MTV and Atwood. Playlist include Spotify’s Pop Rising, young & free, sad hour, and Good Vibes.

Restless Modern notes, “Some of the most difficult and important conversations in society grow stale and taboo over time. To combat this, “on and on” covers its thematically dark underbelly with a billowing presentation of glittery pop-plastic elements meant both to distract superficially from and contextually lean into its confrontation of gaslighting, manipulation, and abuse.

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