Spotify 'Fresh Finds' Playlist Launches With Four Developing Artists

Unusual Demont

SPOTIFY's partnership program for independent artists, centered around the FRESH FINDS playlist, launched this week with the initial class, WALLICE, UNUSUAL DEMONT, JULIA WOLF and EKKSTACY. Each was provided a wide suite of opportunities (mentorship, credits to use on SPOTIFY FOR ARTISTS tools and resources, an intensive marketing campaign, social media docu-series, playlist support and more.

They’ve also spent the last few weeks creating and recording original songs, having been paired with producers/songwriters via SPOTIFY’s SONGWRITER & PUBLISHING RELATIONS team. EKKSTACY paired with producer JONNY PIERCE of THE DRUMS; UNUSUAL DEMONT with THE IDIOT (aka KIERAN WATTERS); WALLICE with songwriter/producer MARINELLI X producer ARIEL RECHSTSHAID, while JULIA WOLF worked with songwriter/producer JACKSON FOOTE.

The resulting compositions were released yesterday, under the SPOTIFY SINGLES banner, and all can be streamed here.

They include JULIA WOLF's "RBF: Part 1," a "brutally honest" meditation on society’s unrealistic expectations of women; UNUSUAL DEMONT's "hey!," an uncategorizable banger that ricochets between punk, hip-hop, and pop; EKKSTACY's "f*ck everything!” with THE DRUMS' JONNY PIERCE's signature surf-meets-post-punk-New-Wave sound propelling the surprisingly upbeat indie dance sonics, and WALLICE's "Nothing Scares Me," which plays with dynamics, reverb, and soaring guitars, shifting from high-energy fist-pumping vocals to introspective moments, all in less than three minutes. 

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