Shervin Lainez

6 days ago | floodmagazine.com | Mike LeSuer |Shervin Lainez

The songwriter (and doula) released her latest LP, The Most Familiar Star, last month. Domino Kirke belongs to a family of multihyphenates, with sisters Lola and Jemima juggling acting, painting, filmmaking, and songwriting duties. Yet beyond being a musician herself, Domino has devoted over 15 years to work outside of the arts as a doula, in addition to becoming an advocate for various causes surrounding postpartum motherhood and sex and childbirth education.

2 weeks ago | floodmagazine.com | Mike LeSuer |Shervin Lainez

When introducing the opening track to her debut album Floreilegium in her breakdown of the LP she did for us, Nigeria-born songwriter Uwade leaves out one important biographical detail about her life in 2020: Before her impressive stable of singles materialized leading up to and furnishing the new album, the songwriter contributed backing vocals to Fleet Foxes’ understated LP Shore.

2 months ago | floodmagazine.com | Will Schube |Shervin Lainez

The songwriter’s fourth album will arrive on March 28 via Geffen Records. Lucy Dacus has released “Talk,” the fourth track to be taken from her new album, Forever Is a Feeling. On the new single, Dacus begins by crooning over acoustic guitar and buzzing synths before introducing crunching drums and layers of harmonies. During the chorus she sings: “Why can’t we talk anymore? / We used to talk for hours / Do I make you nervous or bored?

2 months ago | floodmagazine.com | Mike LeSuer |Shervin Lainez

Over the past 15 years, Jessica Dobson has dedicated her Deep Sea Diverproject to standing out among an ever-widening field of indie-rock outfits in her native Pacific Northwest and beyond. Joined by drummer Peter Mansen and synth player Elliot Jackson, the outfit’s fourth album Billboard Heart feels like their most intuitive—it’s the work of road-tested musicians following their instincts, fueled as much by the music they consume as by each other.

2 months ago | floodmagazine.com | Kim March |Shervin Lainez

Anna Shoemaker’s new album Someone Should Stop Her is a breakup album in the sense that it’s about a breakup, though not in the sense that it sees her wallowing in past relationships. Rather, the 12 songs on the pop songwriter’s sophomore release reflect on the crossroads one comes to post-wallowing, when the only way forward is to focus on your own needs. “I felt like I kept having to choose between myself and this person, and the only option in the end was to choose myself,” Shoemaker shares.