New Music Spotlight with Lo Lo, FIONN, Leah Kate, Kat Meoz, and Mabes

New Music from Lo Lo, FIONN, Leah Kate, Kat Meoz, and Mabes

There's a lot of new music this week that we like, so we're back with another edition of the New Music Spotlight. The last edition was all country music - this edition is various shades of pop with a sprinkle of rock thrown in. Oh, and it's all women being awesome.

Check out these five new songs, add the ones you like to your playlists and share them with your friends too.

Ready? Let's go!

Artist: Lo Lo
Hometown: Toronto, ON
Genre: Indie Pop
Related Artists: Claire Ridgely, LIZ LOKRE, DYLN
Song: Dead Inside
Notes: Dead Inside is the first single from Lo Lo's upcoming EP, Permanent Damage - and if more like this is what he have to look forward to, we're ready now. The emerging indie pop artist has been making waves over the last two years, and with more new music on the way, her stock is going to keep rising. Be ready.

When talking about the song, Lo Lo said, "Do you ever get that hollow feeling - the one that reminds you you've been feeling nothing at all? I call that feeling 'dead inside. Sometimes you don't realize how dead inside you've become, until you wake up and snap out of it.... Kind of like that first breath, when you just realized you haven't taken one in a while."

Artist: FIONN
Hometown: White Rock, BC
Genre: Alt-Pop
Related Artists: Fake Shark, Whitehorse, Terra Lightfoot
Song: Modern Medication
Notes: Sister pop dup FIONN are back, turn it up. Modern Medication comes from their upcoming EP, E veryone's A Critic (July 17, 2020) and is a direct callout to the pitfalls of the always-on social media generation we live in, and that Gen Z is growing up in without knowing anything different. Turn it up. Watch the video.

"Modern Medication is a song about growing up with social media, and how it has affected the mentality of our generation. Being raised in Gen Z, we have never truly experienced life without our senses being overwhelmed by constant entertainment and pictures of what other people are doing. In the video, we wanted to represent the feeling of being on social media with shiny objects, colourful backdrops, fake poses, and fake smiles." Related: FIONN Get Stoned (Q&A)

Artist: Leah Kate
Hometown: New York, NY
Genre: Pop
Related Artists: Madi, CRAY, Emily Vaughn
Song: Fuck Up The Friendship
Notes: Have you ever had a friend that you weren't sure you could actually be friend with because you thought you should be more than friends, but you didn't actually know? Here's that story in a song. Leah Kate nails it on Fuck Up The Friendship with a pop performance that makes me want more from her right now and later too.

Artist: Kat Meoz
Hometown: Houston, TX
Genre: Rock
Related Artists: 3 One Oh, Syd Duran, CRMNL
Song: Back For More
Notes: Kat's rock vocal performance on Back For More is everything ew could have hoped for. From the soft whisper to the angst we want, it's all there. There's some darkness, there's some aggression, there's a heavy beat, there's grit and there's energy. Kat Meoz has got me hooked. And she made me turn the volume way up.

Artist: Mabes
Hometown: Billericay, UK
Genre: Pop
Related Artists: Emmie Reins, Macy Ellen, May Raya
Song: Keeping The Noise Down
Notes: Keeping The Noise Down is the title track from Mabes' new EP, and if this is your introduction to her, you're in for a treat. If you've got any kind of soft spot for singer-songwriter pop, dig in!

"Keeping The Noise Down is a song about me being at a party and feeling very out of place and uncomfortable, and it felt like the perfect setting for a story to evolve. You see music videos where young people are partying and having the time of their lives - it's almost shoved down our throats to drink, dance, and be happy! But you don't see the self-conscious or awkward people that don't enjoy that environment. I wanted to open that conversation, and maybe bring some comfort to those people, to let them know you don't have to be at the party to be cool - which is a message running through the last scene as I leave."