“Pointillistic structures with a mainspring of minimalism.” [Jon Pareles, The New York Times]
 
“New York psych-pop explorers Zula aren’t easy to pin down, but while their sound shifts track to track, there is a beautiful coherence to an album like This Hopeful.” [SPIN]
 
“For lack of a better word, this is pop, sincere, offbeat, and playfully and unassumingly experimental: you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone else that sounds like them, or as musically and effectively fulfilling.” [Tiny Mix Tapes]
 
Zula official site
Zula on facebook
Zula on bandcamp

Lacrymosa on facebook | Lacrymosa on soundcloud
 
Lacrymosa is Caitlin Pasko — weaver of dreamy elegiac music for voice and piano. Musically her songs drift and float like the work of Satie or Debussy. Lyrically they’re clear, simple meditations on tenderness and heartbreak. Pasko’s style is built on this tension: between the looseness of the Impressionists and the simplicity of modern songwriters. There is something of Bjork’s ‘Vulnicura’ here, of Sufjan Stevens’ ‘Carrie and Lowell’, and of Angel Olsen’s intimate minimalism.

Swoon Lake on Facebook | Swoon Lake on Soundcloud

Swoon Lake is a three-piece “ghost folk” band from Brooklyn who met on dating sites in early 2016. Their songs—suspenseful, ghostly soundscapes—are driven by principal songwriter, singer, and keyboardist Melodie Stancato, with support form the textural, conversational guitar and vocal interplay of Lucinda Hearn and Paul Weintrob.