EKKSTACY
(Surf rock - Vancouver)
At the age of 19, EKKSTACY is thriving. He's got buzz around him, he's playing shows, he's working on future releases, but reality isn't necessarily sweeter. Spurned by rejection and fake support from his peers at school, he now writes songs about feeling dejected. He writes songs about heartbreak over an ex girlfriend. He writes songs about running away. He writes songs about being a screwed-up adolescent. He writes these songs in his teenage bedroom. Friends he meets online help him produce them. It's a modern tale with an eternal twist. Forever it will be true that it's in the safe havens of teenagers that the biggest dreams are imagined, and no matter how fucked-up those dreams sound, people will find them. They will listen to them. Because most of the time, they feel the same way.
"La relève est décidément de plus en plus jeune : à 19 ans seulement, EKKSTACY est assurément la nouvelle sensation de la scène surf rock. Repéré par un des plus emblématiques musiciens du registre, Jonathan Pierce (surtout connu en tant que chanteur de Drums), le Canadien confirme donc son statut de nouvel espoir à l’occasion d’un nouveau morceau intitulé it only gets worse, i promise." Les Inrockuptibles
- https://youtu.be/7NWOhdto6vE

SIOUL
(Electro rock - Figures Libres Records - Tours, FR)
Sioul est un duo d'electro rock, basé entre Tours et Besançon. Batterie et basse se mélangent aux synthétiseurs, en s'alliant à la voix masculine, fragile mais fière. La musique y est froide, violente, énergique et mélancolique.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIILKEXFuJs