#folk-rock

#folk-rock

As one half of Brooklyn-based duo Water From Your Eyes, Nate Amos makes left-field pop that feels hypermodern: wry, memey lyricism; post-ironic genre-hopping; the kind of jilted chaos and tonal jumble that characterises a social media feed. Yet the band had actually been plugging away for seven years before their 2023 breakthrough. Amos's solo project This Is Lorelei has been going even longer, only gaining proper traction with last year's belated debut album Box for Buddy, Box for Star.

In the early 2000s, the band Simon Dawes, formed by high school friends Taylor Goldsmith and Blake Mills, brought a Malibu flavor to the solidifying indie rock sound. Once Mills left, it reformed as simply Dawes featuring Taylor Goldsmith and his brother Griffin. It also ditched the "indie" label and settled into a more folk sound, keeping that ocean breeze but incorporating a Laurel Canyon flavor.