New York‘s ADAM FINCHLER works across music, video and DIY art, but no matter the medium, his work all stems from a creative desire to explore the stranger side of life to better figure out its complexities. “Adam has always found a way to take the absurd and elevate it to an art,” as Don Giovanni Records co-founder Joe Steinhardt so succinctly puts it. Whether Finchler is playing drums for Sea Urchin (Ba Da Bing Records), making videos for the likes of Ought and Charlotte Cornfield, starring in them for Katie Von Schleicher, or releasing clickbait videos and a book “of haunted hayriders’ quotations overheard by the grim reaper himself,” his overarching mission shines through.
“Like the Beatles on NyQuil”
CREEPY CRAWLY is the project of Bristol-born and Manchester-based musician Rachel Cawley, weaving bittersweet narratives through shimmering, multi-layered song writing. Her distinctive crystalline vocals guide listeners through ethereal dreamscapes, moments of eerie unease, and the satisfying crunch of ’90s alt-rock melancholy.
Growing up in the rural West of England, her music is, in part, inspired by a childhood soundtracked by folk revival artists and traditional British folk music. But the pull of the city was huge and, aged 18, she moved to London and submerged herself in the many worlds of music available to her there – working at venues, writing for music magazines, temping at record labels – and going to a lot of gigs. But, as it so often does, London spat her back out. And so, during a period of self-reckoning with the question of “how the hell did I get here?”, living a life that seemed frighteningly ordinary, she returned to writing songs – tracing out the path of how she found herself in a place she didn’t want to be – and armed with newfound hope and resilience, plotting a route back out of it.
The result of this reflective work is her debut album ‘Like a Real Thing’, which will be self-released on May 30th 2025 and draws from a diverse palette of influences including Scott Walker, Big Thief, Laura Marling, Anne Briggs, Cat Power, Breeders and Heatmiser.
BORN in the Lake District, raised in a creative Manchester household, Oliver began playing the drums at age 7; teaching himself bass and guitar from the age of 16. Self recording from his home studio, Oliver first released music with radical expression, under the name ‘A Polar Rose’, where he first experienced the catharsis of sharing music. Emerging as OLIVER LOUIS, he took to the Manchester live music scene, combining naïve lyricism with mature acoustic fingerpicking; all the while, expanding his recording techniques behind closed doors. Here he was able to combine non-traditional percussion with modern technology, transporting folk music into the realm of psychedelia.
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