If It's Too Loud...

Photo by Chuck Arlund Dream pop seems to be the genre of the moment, and we tend to be all in for it. The latest band we've discovered to play with that genre is CHLSY. The Nashville trio have just released "vancouver," and while it is decidedly dream pop it does pull from multiple related musical genres. "vancouver" has a little more edge and angst to it than your typical dream pop, most likely due to the subject matter. With this song, singer/guitarist Chelsea Gilliand is dealing with traumas from exes, death, and ex-friends, all through how she blamed the city of Vancouver at the time after her father took a job there. It's a grunge adjacent level of angst, but it's more a mid-90's power pop power ballad than a heavy rager. This is a song that's equally beautiful and painful. You can listen to "vancouver" below. For more on CHLSY, check out the artist's website .

lié are one of those bands you have never heard anything like it before, and you have no idea how that is possible. Hailing out of Vancouver, BC, I only heard about them because they were opening for The Dead Milkmen on a recent West Coast tour. It's dark gothic heavy punk. Imagine straight edge hardcore style punk mixed in with European goth new wave, but it a really melodic way. It's not goth in a "Let's put bats on our merch and wear black eyeliner" way, but just dark. I can't call it catchy, but it's not meant to be. lié take all these elements that have never been mixed together, and especially never like this. It's heavy and groovy all at once. "Saved" just barrels in at this breakneck pace with a chanting call and response gang vocals. If you like any kind of music that is heavy or dark, this will be for you. The band also just premiered a new video for "Sorry," which is just this crazy discordant mindfuck of a song. This ...