Explore the Soundafide Monthly playlist, a project devoted to giving you fresh underground music. Each week three artists from this list will be discussed.
YUNGCYBERPRINCESS
YUNGCYBERPRINCESS, or YCP for short, is a digital artist and musician who envisions a stimulating, retro-futuristic world. Associated with underground and high-fashion brands alike, the artist works with companies such as Telfar, Ella Loca, and FreakCityLA.
Her music reinforces these colorful aesthetics, as her stylish delivery springs over blissful hip hop instrumentals.
“LETHAL” is cutthroat southern hip hop with an ethereal glaze of modern cloud rap. YCP slides through with a raw, braggish delivery complete with sassy ad lib whines.
Her soothing followup, “TOPIC,” is a subtle flex of mystic pop-rap panache.
Leave YCP on repeat, and harness all the confidence you’ll need this week.
Yawning Portal
Yawning Portal, named after a fictional inn from Dungeons and Dragons, sit in between realms of ambient and electronic music. The London experimental soundsters craft transportive tunes with audible love and care.
Their debut 2020 EP, “Heart & Earth,” released under Vegyn imprint, PLZ Make It Ruins, meditates on the past while pioneering inviting soundscapes.
There’s a purity in Yawning Portal’s exploration of sounds, as their whirring electronics remain sweet with nostalgic charm. Dreamy synth melodies and warm bass lines meet a pastoral collection of sounds: a summer night’s cricket chirps, moody thunderstorm rumbles, and crackles of an ancient fireplace.
The final track, “Cut To the Feeling,” is an ambient pop anthem, somewhere between a cover and a sample of the 2017 Carly Rae Jepsen hit.
Their most recent release, 2022’s Notice the Direction of Fires, is a soundtrack for member Lydia Ourahmane’s exhibition ‘Survival in the Afterlife.’
Your Arms Are My Cocoon
Has skramz ever sounded this comfy?
Bedroom-fifth-wave-emo artist, Your Arms Are My Cocoon, is steeped in midwest nostalgia, yet etches his own alienish sound. The solo recording project is run by Chicago-based musician, Tyler Odom.
Born from isolation, Your Arms Are My Cocoon’s self-titled debut is a dramatic expression of pain recorded in Odom’s bedroom when he was only 17 and 18. The project’s peculiarity, somewhat indebted to its DIY recording process, is unparalleled in emo’s latest crop of boundary pushing acts.
The vulnerable, bittersweet songs meander between DIY dream-folk and wintry post-hardcore.
A defining project for modern emo rock, Your Arms Are My Cocoon is dynamic, joining the most tender, quietest bedroom pop with the most belligerent, feverish screamo music.
