“2019 was a pretty rough one for my family,” Jacklin wrote in a statement. “I was touring the whole year carrying a lot of guilt for not being able to be at home. Singing super sad songs every night was a blessing and a curse depending on the day. I was imagining Christmas as being this time where we all came together again and took a collective breath but then the bushfires hit and my family live in the country so it was a direct threat. I was living in Melbourne, still pretty new to it, and wasn’t able to go home, the roads were blocked and my family were being evacuated periodically for a month. At one point Melbourne was blanketed in smoke from the fires, the sun was this menacing red, it felt apocalyptic and pretty hopeless. I wrote this in my room looking forward to 2020, hoping it would be a reset of some kind lol.”
Julia Jacklin’s last album Crushing came out last year. More recently, she shared two new songs, ‘to Perth, before the border closes’ and ‘CRY’.
Elori Saxl, a Minneapolis-born musician and filmmaker, unveiled her latest single ‘Wave III’ alongside a self-directed music video. The piece follows up on Saxl’s first single which was released back in November named ‘Wave I’. Both of the pieces will be part of Saxl’s forthcoming album The Blue of Distance which is due to be released on the 22nd of January, 2021 via Western Vinyl.
Saxl is a composer well-known for making music for clients such as Patagonia, Google, Poler, and Dove — to name a few. Her film work has also gained her two Emmy nominations and features on publications such as the New Yorker and Paste.
Another Michael have announced their debut album, New Music and Big Pop, due out February 19 via Run for Cover. The Philadelphia-based outfit have also shared a new single called ‘I Know You’re Wrong’. Check it out below, and scroll down for the album’s cover artwork and tracklist.
“‘I Know You’re Wrong’ came to be when I first started toying with my new Electro-Harmonix Freeze, a pedal which has since become a piece of gear I go back to often when songwriting,” vocalist/ guitarist Michael Doherty said of the new track in a statement. “Speaking of freeze, the ending lyrics tell a true story: It hadn’t snowed in Albany in a very long time. No snow whatsoever in the winter of 2016, and still no snow at the time of writing the song in late January of 2017. But by nature, all things overdue will eventually give, and soon enough we had a storm that our good friend, neighbour, and engineer Scoops Dardaris could only describe as ‘Snow-pocalypse 2k17.’ Who still remembers?”
During a time of unprecedented isolation, we’ve all found ourselves turning to music for solace. It seems kind of a miracle we got to hear any new music at all in 2020, with artists facing more challenges than ever due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. With that in mind, we thought we’d kick off our 2020 Year in Review by asking some of the artists we’ve featured in our Artist Spotlight series this year to tell us about the songs that helped them get through these strange, difficult months – any one song, old or new, that they found themselves returning to time and time again or that offered some hope in the midst of uncertainty. It’s an eclectic batch of tracks ranging from William Basinksi to Lana Del Rey to Astrud Gilberto, but what’s most inspiring is how they all seem to relate to one another in some shape or form. As a way of saying goodbye to 2020, here are the picks from 21 artists including Arlo Parks, Johanna Warren, Holly Humberstone, Samia, Jordan Klassen, and more.
The song that has been soothing me this year is ‘You’re Too Precious’ by James Blake. The piano is devastatingly gentle and the instrumentation blossoms into something both warm and intricate over the course of the song. My favourite lyric is “I’d take the calls you don’t want to, I’d take the hair in your food” – this list of simple sacrifices creates an atmosphere of genuine, pure love. I first heard this song at 3am in my bedroom, it transported me instantly, I felt tranquil and hopeful for the future. This song makes me feel like James Blake is sitting beside me, letting me know everything is going to be okay – it’s a masterpiece of intimacy.
I discovered this song earlier this year before corona had properly hit and I couldn’t stop listening to it for weeks. When the album [Punisher] dropped mid-lockdown I was reminded of it and had another phase of being completely obsessed with the song. There’s something really comforting about the intensely personal lyrics, it almost sounds like an unfiltered train of thought. I also read somewhere that the male voice you can hear in the choruses is her tour bus driver which is so cool. ‘Garden Song’ along with all the others on the album really saved me during lockdown, I’m such a huge fan of hers and it just felt so familiar when everything else going on was confusing and strange.
Katie Malco: ‘So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings’ by Caroline Polachek
Obviously it’s been a difficult year for everyone – and I’ve definitely really struggled at times to find some form of relief from it all. I think it gets to the point where you become numb even to things that used to cheer you up, like certain films, shows or podcasts or whatever. So I had already heard Caroline Polachek’s album earlier in the year and really enjoyed it, but this song came on shuffle one day whilst I was walking about and it made me wanna break into a spontaneous dance in the middle of the street. It’s such a huge tune. And I hadn’t felt like that for SO LONG, I had forgotten what it was like to find some bloody joy in this covid ridden hell hole. I’ve listened to it so often during the course of the year, I’m totally addicted to it. I also loved Squirrel Flower’s cover of it.
Martha Skye Murphy: ‘Please, This Shit Has Got To Stop’ by William Basinski
This song (and the album it’s taken from, Basinski’s latest LP Lamentations) is conducive for dreaming, praying, listening, focusing, sleeping, working, writing, floating, whatever. The operatic melancholic rotation of loops slowly evolving and adapting, moving towards an ending point of diminishing relevance, sort of reflects this year for me. The whole record is beautiful, his work is timeless and grounding. We’re all just floating, which is numbing sometimes, calming and invigorating at others. As the refrain spirals up and down with each repetition shifting slightly, you circle around yourself finding new thought paths. When Basinski finds these loops he says it’s like locating an ‘eternal perfection … you can’t tell the beginning from the end’, which is sort of how I’ve felt about this odd year. Beautiful things, perfection even, have arisen from a fucked up world that keeps spinning as we slowly destroy it, like the disintegrating tape thread on repeat.
Carla J. Easton: ‘Nobody Sees Me Like You Do’ by Yoko Ono feat. The Apples In Stereo
You know how you can revisit an album from long ago and it can feel like seeing an old friend for the first time in ages? And when you meet that old friend, it’s like you’ve never been apart. In a strange year, I revisited a lot of my record collection that had been gathering dust. One of them was Yes, I’m A Witch, an album by Yoko Ono featuring collaborations with the likes of Peaches, Le Tigre, The Polyphonic Spree and more. I quickly fell back in love with the song ‘Nobody Sees Me Like You Do’ featuring The Apples In Stereo, a reimagining of the song that originally appeared on her Season of Glass album with the, now, infamous front cover – a photo of John Lennon’s blood stained glasses and an unfinished glass of water. The Apples In Stereo version bursts through like a much needed ray of sunshine, all bells and whistles, an almost Spector like production. “No one can see me like you do, no one can see you like I do” – such a simple yet universally identifiable statement for the chorus – delivered in the wonderful vocal way that Yoko does so well – like a lullaby full of power, naive yet simultaneously strong. I sent this to a lot of friends this year, and walked the streets of Glasgow with it blasting through my headphones, my own personal soundtrack. It’s important to see each other and be seen. Especially in 2020.
Rhythm of the Saints will forever hold a seat of honor in my heart because my late great friend and bandmate JP and I used to listen to it on many a stoned evening, fantasizing about one day making something of that scope and vision. This year I’ve found myself singing one line in particular from this one song over and over again, whilst making pancakes or pacing in circles around my room: “You have underestimated my power.”
I heard one of the early demos of ‘New Music’ by Another Michael early last year while we were on tour and listened to it every day for a month. It kind of got buried in my dropbox after that and I screamed when it came out this year – it’s relatable and painful in the most complicated way but he manages to epitomize the sentiment so plainly. He just says, “I’m kinda new”. I’ve found so much comfort in it this year and have been sharing it with everyone I can.
There’s been so much music new and old that has comforted and inspired me during this confusing and difficult year but one song I keep coming back to is ‘Healer’ by Iceblink. Iceblink’s Carpet Cocoon album was released in early 2020 and it’s truly wild how different things were during that time both personally and globally. I loved this track when I heard it during that time period and it filled with me a sense of calm and optimism for the ensuing year. Obviously, the year turned out quite differently but I’ve come back to ‘Healer’ and Carpet Cocoon as a whole again and again. Those initial reactions to this track remain unchanged but I also have felt my response to this music grow and blossom over time. Now, ‘Healer’ makes me feel an almost romantic swoon as its lilting classical guitar figures melt into saxophone melodies. Instantly, I’m hit with a wistful nostalgia for a time that hasn’t happened yet and memories that haven’t been created – memories that were perhaps even delayed or changed due to massive societal shifts of this last year. It’s hard to fully articulate the emotions that are conjured up by this minimal and beautiful piece but I know that I’ll keep returning to it long after 2020.
This song has gotten me through so much of this year and last. I remember when I came across it for the first time it stopped me in my tracks. I like how the lyrics contrast the instrumentation to a comical degree but also how effortlessly Astrud sings every word. After having stumbled upon it I went and deep dove into everything Astrud had ever done from live performances to her evolving fashion. It continues to be a song I associate with a sense of curiosity and a real swell of emotions.
Xelli Island: ‘Norman Fucking Rockwell’ by Lana Del Rey
I re-fell in love with this track recently after being obsessed with the entire album when it came out, last year. You know when a song feels like it was written just for you? Lyrics and all? Well, I think Lana wrote this one for me. This year has been difficult for obvious reasons but I was swept up in an intense romance for most of it. It was truly one of the strangest and most complicated relationships of my life and I’m still in the middle of processing the end of it. I put this song on during my walk today and felt so much better after listening to it. Her lyrics are a true inspiration for me. The rawness, melodies, and vulnerability of this song are unmatched.
The song ‘Changerr’ by Cedric Noel has been very near and dear to me this year. I have been a fan of Cedric’s music for a long time, but I started listening to the album Nothing Forever, Everything this summer while my partner and I were in Montreal for a couple of months. The beautiful arrangements and lush vocals of this track feel like a warm hug, and the lyrics really resonate with me. I feel like anyone going through a personal change with the backdrop of this pandemic could really relate to this song. It feels anthemic.
While in Hollywood lockdown, realms of fantasy become more tangible to me than everyday life. I constantly returned to my favorite anime short films to find creative inspiration. One film that left a big imprint on me is Kōji Morimoto’s Noiseman Sound Insect (1997), which tells the story of a synthetic mutant creature named Noiseman that splits people’s souls into fish-like beings, leaving only crystals behind (representing music). Noiseman goes on a rampage of terror, and after eventually getting captured in its own spirit-vacuum trap, the camera pans across a dystopian megalopolis to a dazed group of friends staring at the sky as Yoko Kano’s ‘Trees Make Seeds’ plays. She sings in a sweet, child-like voice:
trees make seeds
and worms eat seeds
and bigger worms eat worms
Despite perceived understandings of “reality” – natural states of being move forward ceaselessly. The song, which was never officially released, captures the endless nature of the life cycle, and reminds me that harmony always triumphs over noise. There is noise everywhere around us, but when we take a moment to clear away the cobwebs before our eyes, a utopia of possibility exists.
This is a track created by my dear friend Laik from Australia, who is, coincidentally, one of the most prolific and talented musicians I have the honor of knowing personally. She released it in late August, and I first listened while I was taking a little vacation in the Smoky Mountains in North Carolina. I was floored. It was like the melody of the air in that place had seeped into my headphones, and I felt like I was being caressed by gently running water. Laik’s voice is a buttery stunner, and the arrangement is *divine*. I had this song on repeat for weeks after I first heard it. I think that what I’ve been seeking during quarantine are things that are simply beautiful. I’m finding that music that is overly intellectual or technically focused just isn’t doing it for me in this, the season of constant oversight of numbers, statistics, projections, and calculations. I crave simplicity, deliciousness, and closeness. This song is all of those things, and still keenly clever somehow. I can’t wait until she’s touring the world so everyone can cry as much as I have at her shows.
This is one of the most grounding songs I’ve heard in a long time. It’s like running back to your mum for a comforting hug. However it’s comfort that comes from reality, an album that acknowledges the scars and rifts and ugliness of our current world, and knows that we have the power to make it better, if we try. It’s a song that brings it all back to the hugeness of the personal, and the beauty of hope in humanity.
Summer in my province of British Columbia was surprisingly beautiful given the current circumstances. We were gifted with a lot of sun, and just enough rain to keep everything green through the heat. But August came to a close and a hard truth set in – we were in for years of Covid, not months. The rain returned. For me it was an existential low point. Right at that time Ólafur Arnalds released this track from his new record and it was a bit of a balm for me. It’s delicate and hopeful but there’s pain there too. I think it will always remind me of this time, biking through the orange and red streets of Autumn Vancouver and finding a bit of peace amidst a lot of chaos.
A song that’s been especially significant to me in 2020 is an old song on a record I really dove headfirst back into at the start of lockdown – ‘Mary’ by Big Thief, off of their record Capacity. It’s such a touching song – I’m always very moved when I listen to it, and come away from it with a sense of stillness and peace, which I think are experiences we’ve all been seeking more and more of in these unsettling, surreal times with the pandemic.
‘Tribute’ by Lizzie Reid is a song that I’ve kept coming back to again and again over the last few months. It’s incredibly sparse and beautiful, and has made me rediscover just how powerful a guitar and voice can be on their own, without any bells and whistles added. Discovering new artists has been a source of comfort for me this year, and Lizzie Reid’s music is a real gem of a find.
Blanche: ‘Steal‘ by Maribou State feat. Holly Walker
I’ve been listening to this song a lot during the lockdown, dreaming of the summer. It made me feel good to dance to it, to imagine me and my friends dancing to it under the sun. I knew it was coming; I had planned my holidays and this song brought me closer to them, it got me dreaming about them, made me realise there was other things coming – it comforted me.
I could also dream about maybe dancing to this song with a summer love or something. I don’t know, it just helped me dream about my holidays which made me feel really good in a time where I didn’t how to get out, when it would end and when nothing could really comfort me.
I don’t know how I couldn’t have picked a Radiohead song for this year since I was genuinely obsessed. When lockdown started Radiohead started posting a live concert that they played in the past on to YouTube at 7:00pm every Thursday, so every Thursday my mom and I sat down at the kitchen table next to the computer and watched these 1 – 2 hour long Radiohead concerts. In Rainbows is truly amazing, I was so obsessed that at night I would sit in the bathroom and listen to ‘Bodysnatchers’ so I wouldn’t wake my sister while she slept in our room. Radiohead really made lockdown good!
If I had to pick one song that sums up 2020 for me, I’d have to go with ‘Say Goodbye’ by Hiroshi Sato! I finally discovered this artist/album this year and love the whole damn thing! But that song in particular is just perfect. It’s very feel-good, which takes my mind off all the horrible stuff 2020 had to offer, and I love listening while driving or walking. It’s the perfect song for “saying goodbye” to this horrendous year, lol!
Toward a future place, surreal, an unknown world, she draws me in, droning synth plays with a favourite drum machine. There’s no escaping the darkness, yet our lives are sweet and our feet don’t touch the ground. Vulnerable but still, she makes me believe that eternal love is possible. With her next to me, I start life again. I am strong. I am warm. I make new decisions. I change and make movies in my head, maybe not with everything that I have, but I can love, so it’s okay. With this song, I can be otherworldly. Promise me you will stay with me. Be gentle. Life and love is rising. Thank you Sharon Van Etten for your art. All year, you have reminded me to breathe.
Last month, Bruce Springsteen made an appearance on a new Bleachers song called ‘chinatown’. Now, Jack Antonoff and Sprinsgsteen have performed their collaborative track live for the first time on the rooftop of New York City’s famed Electric Lady Studios. Watch it below, along with a performance of Bleachers’ other new song ’45’.
Antonoff, who was recently nominated for Producer of the Year – Non-Classical at the 2021 Grammy Awards, has produced a number of high-profile releases this year, including The Chicks’ Gaslighter and Taylor Swift’s folklore. Springsteen released his 20th studio album, Letter to You, in October
John Carpenter has shared a new song with Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies called ‘The Dead Walk’. It’s taken from their forthcoming projectLost Themes III: Alive After Death, which comes out February 5 via Sacred Bones. Check it out below, alongside an accompanying visual featuring artwork by Boneface and animation by Liam Brazier.
Lost Themes III: Alive After Death marks the follow-up to 2015’s Lost Themes and 2016’s Lost Themes II. Previously, Carpenter shared the singles ‘Weeping Ghost’ and ‘Skeleton’.
Kick-starting a healthy college lifestyle can seem like an uphill battle, especially when junk food is easily accessible. With a tight schedule and less time to spare, many students will opt for such food, unless they hire expert writers from the best writing essays service to have a proper meal. The preparation of this kind of food helps to save time consumed when cooking a meal.
Because of such kind of lifestyle and poor food choices, most college students are obese. Research shows that 70% of students tend to gain weight during their undergraduate years, which might even rise to 78% during the four years of college.
Tips for Developing a Healthy Academic Lifestyle
To develop a healthier lifestyle while in college and succeed in your education, you must be ready to sacrifice some of the things you like doing. What are the tips to enable you to live a healthier lifestyle and succeed in your education? They include:
Start an Exercise Routine
Exercise can only be enjoyable if you have a goal and do workouts that you love. The mistake that most students make is to assume that what an expert recommends has to work. You can make that exercise your lifestyle. And what does that mean?
Not all exercises are equal, and you won’t enjoy them all. However, there are many great benefits to exercising. For instance, you can boost your brain activity. As such, you’ll end up managing your education in the right way possible.
When exercise becomes a lifestyle, you can incorporate it into your daily routine. There are various exercises like swimming, running, aerobics, running and weight lifting, among others. If you don’t have a specific workout in mind, you can experiment until you can settle on a few that you prefer. If you can indulge in one as a lifestyle, you will manage your education with ease.
With exams to think about and several assignments to complete every week, a student’s life may be stressful. To avoid such stress, you can engage in an activity that you love most. Earlier, we’ve seen that you can include exercise as part of your lifestyle. Engaging in exercise can reduce academic stress.
Establish Priorities
Most students without plans end up procrastinating a lot. As a result, they end up piling school assignments. If you don’t have a strategy for dealing with your schoolwork, you might fail. At times, students opt to buy essay papers from online sources as a refuge. If you have a lifestyle of not doing things on time, you might fail in your education. And how is that possible?
Carry Healthy Snacks
With a busy schedule, you are less likely to gauge when hunger pangs are ready to strike. Many students mainly focus on businesses and forget that their health is essential as well. If you are always busy with class, you might lack enough time for eating or resting. If this case becomes a lifestyle, you might affect your productivity and academic performance at large.
It helps a lot if anyone can secure some time for him/herself. Be quick to prepare a healthy meal every day. Remember, you can handle your education better if you are in good health. Besides, you can do online grocery shopping and buy only healthy snacks containing nuts, fruits, and vegetables, if you lack time to cook properly. For a protein-rich and convenient snack, you might consider Mahogany Smoked Meats, which can be a flavorful addition to your diet.
It helps a lot to avoid eating fats but consume more fruits and vegetables rich in fiber. According to the Harvard School of Public Health, when it comes to selecting protein, beans, nuts, poultry, and fish are the best choices. As for vegetables, always go for a wide variety of colors to ensure your body gets the required vitamins and minerals. Such vitamins allow the brain to develop accordingly. As such, you can manage your education with ease.
Carry a Bottle of Water to Class
Replace sugary fruit drinks, coffee, and soda with water. Drinking the recommended six to eight glasses of water per day keeps you hydrated. Ensure that you include this in your lifestyle. Some of the benefits of drinking water include:
Prevents constipation
Improves memory
Regulates body temperature
Along with a water bottle, carry meal replacement shakes in australia which will help you to give a kickstart to a healthy lifestyle in college. Consider shakes that satisfy dietary restrictions, like those that are gluten-free or vegan, and they should be chosen for their well-balanced contents. Shakes should be used in conjunction with good foods and frequent exercise to create a well-rounded approach to health while managing the rigors of Australian college life.
If your body is in a good state, nothing will prevent you from managing your school work and achieve success.
Point to Take Home: Develop a Personal Lifestyle Journal!
College life is likely to be stressful, especially during exams or when you have so much on your plate that you barely have time to engage in fun activities. Journaling allows you to express your feelings in paperwork. In the future, you can recall all that happened in your college life. Be quick to pick the right choice of a healthy lifestyle while in college.
Face masks have taken over every day fashion on the streets of some of the most cosmopolitan, global cities.
But it’s not only the consumer that has benefited from this monumental shift. They’ve also revived parts of the fashion industry itself.
As the global economy dips into recession and we see mass unemployment spread throughout the world as borders snap shut to tourism, nobody is looking to spend on expensive high level fashion.
Enter the humble face mask.
No longer just a niche item for polluted inner city living, face masks are one of the only things we can do as a society to prevent the spread of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
But nobody said you couldn’t look good helping out your community, right?
COVID-19 is a virus and the only way an airborne virus can spread, is by passing respiratory droplets from person to person. Yes, all it takes is simple quarantining, social distancing and face coverings to stop the coronavirus in its tracks.
When you think of face masks, no doubt your mind drifts to dull white, surgical masks that you see on doctors. But with many governments imposing mask mandates on their citizens, brands have seized the opportunity to sell fashionable alternatives to the classic
We’re not only talking about home made products from Etsy or niche brands like Hoorag, we’re talking about some major fashion juggernauts like Nike, Adidas, Uniqlo and Burberry. Massive fashion brands taking the humble face mask designed to slow the spread of a deadly virus, and transforming it into a must have fashion item of the year.
Overnight trend changes in clothing fashion are certainly not a new phenomena, but there’s something about the way that face masks have gained prominence that feels different.
The final question that remains however, is whether fashionable masks are here to stay or nothing more than a passing fad.
When you look at other countries, can you really say that the coronavirus pandemic has made people happier to look out for the greater good? Or has it just made them more selfish and protectionist than ever?
Well, when we look at the sheer refusal to protect the most vulnerable in society through simple social distancing and lockdown measures, it would certainly be easier to make an argument for the latter.
In saying that however, there are certainly signs from younger generations that they’ve become accepted purely as fashion items. Something that will be important in cleaner, pandemic free cities once a vaccine is developed and things return to normal.
With multiple COVID-19 vaccines on the horizon, will the fashion pull of face masks remain after their functional day to day purpose has been served?
It’s only a matter of time before we emerge from this global coronavirus pandemic and from there it’s going to be interesting to see how or even if, brands continue to market face masks.
As low cost, high margin products that are easy to make, it’s certainly in their best interest to find a way.
Bob Dylan has sold his entire songwriting catalog to Universal Music Publishing Group in a landmark deal of reportedly more than $300 million, according to the New York Times. Dylan’s catalog includes over 600 songs up through his latest album, Rough and Rowdy Ways. UMPG reportedly negotiated the deal directly with Dylan, who previously had control over nearly all of his music publishing rights throughout his six-decade career.
“Brilliant and moving, inspiring and beautiful, insightful and provocative, his songs are timeless—whether they were written more than half a century ago or yesterday,” Lucian Grainge, Chairman CEO of Universal Music Group, said in a statement. “I have no doubt that decades, even centuries from now, the words and music of Bob Dylan will continue to be sung and played—and cherished—everywhere.”
UMPG’s CEO, Jody Gerson, added: “To represent the body of work of one of the greatest songwriters of all time — whose cultural importance can’t be overstated — is both a privilege and a responsibility.”
The acquisition includes all of Dylan’s original songs, as well as a few co-written with other songwriters, and one on which he’s not a writer – the Band’s 1968 hit ‘The Weight’, which Dylan owned the rights to but which was written by Robbie Robertson. It does not include any future songs Dylan may write.
Throughout the week, we update our Best New Songs playlist with the new releases that caught our attention the most, be it a single leading up to the release of an album or a newly unveiled deep cut. And each Monday, we round up the best new songs released over the past week (the eligibility period begins on Monday and ends Sunday night) in this segment.
The best Christmas songs that came out this past week weren’t so kind to Santa: on ‘Santa Stay Home’, co-written with Rich Morel, U.S. Girls’ Meg Remy advises St. Nick to stay home to reduce his environmental footprint and slow down rampant consumerism, while 100 gecs dropped a ska-influenced, anti-Santa banger in the style of ‘stupid horse’. There’s plenty of non-holiday songs to highlight this week, too: Thom Yorke, Burial, and Four Tet teamed up for a special collaborative single, and both tracks on the physical-only release are equally entrancing; Zola Jesus offered a beautifully ethereal rendition of the Armenian folk song ‘Krunk’; shame knocked it out of the park with ‘Snow Days’, the latest single from the post-punk outfit’s upcoming album Drunk Tank Pink; ‘Let it Out’ is an abrasive (and surprisingly cathartic) banger off Rico Nasty’s debut album; Iggy Pop gave one of his most dynamic performances on the new French-language version of Elvis Costello’s ‘No Flag’; and finally, French-Korean, LA-based artist spill tab delivered a playfully sweet and catchy indie pop tune with her latest single ‘Name’.