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Los Angeles's singer-songwriter Jay Som (Melina Duterte) debuted with several singles of bedroom-pop (2012-15), with the
album Turn Into (2016), which is just a collection of demos,
and with the singles I Think You're Alright/ Rush (2016), Turn the Other Cheek (2017) and Radio Silence/ Lose (2017).
Sophomore album Everybody Works (2017) contains
humble dream-pop ditties like The Bus Song (2017) and Baybee (2017),
shades of punk-rock in 1 Billion Dogs (2017),
One More Time (embellished with a Pink Floyd-ian guitar solo)
and the seven-minute closer For Light,
Anak Ko (2019) contains two more dream-pop ditties, namely
Superbike (2019) and Nighttime Drive (2019), but begins to show
the limitations of her music.
Duterte also teamed up with Justus Proffit for the five-song EP Nothing's Changed (2018) and with Chastity Belt's bassist Annie Truscott for the single Cady Road and the EP And Other Things (2021).
Meanwhile in New York another singer-songwriter,
Ellen Kempner
launched her project Palehound with the short eight-song album
Dry Food (2015), containing Molly,
with A Place I'll Always Go (2017) and
with Black Friday (2019), containing Worthy, in a more somber style.
Duterte and Kempner formed Bachelor, which
debuted with the rather trivial mix of
folk-rock and psych-pop of Doomin' Sun (2021).
Typical of their melodic talent are
the elegy Back of My Hand,
the jangling lullaby Sick of Spiraling,
and the poppy, bombastic and distorted (almost shoegazing) singalong Stay in the Car.
But the album also contain introverted moments like the
whispered, bluesy Sand Angel and
spartan bedroom-pop dirges Went out Without You, Doomin' Sun and Moon.
Sound effects impregnate the post-psychedelic Spin Out, opening another possible front.
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