Find A Song

Find A Song about push-and-pull dynamics of modern relationships

K-lai - Do & Don't

The original single showcases K-Iai's signature style: a playful call-and-response dynamic layered over nostalgic dance-pop pulses and polished contemporary production. The track explores how differences and tensions between people can become the very rhythm that brings them together, wrapping relatable relationship themes in catchy hooks and attitude-filled verses.

Added to FAS Spotify playlists indie pop and relationships.

Find A Song about radical change

Maz Univerze - BUZZ CUT!

Find A Song about waiting for lasting love while continuing to build a beautiful life

Anja Kotar - A Study In Waiting

The song meaning is rooted in romantic patience: wanting love deeply, but still making your own days beautiful instead of treating life as something on hold. The production opens with a classic Disney-inspired orchestral intro, then blooms into live strings, acoustic guitar, harp, celesta, and wind chimes.

Find A Song about the daily grind of modern life

Iri Antler - Finish Line

It all started at home, completely bypassing expensive studios, with the harsh, grinding noise of an old coffee machine. For independent multi-talent Iri Antler, this mundane kitchen sound instantly triggered a deeper thought about the "daily grind" of modern life. She sampled it, and that very loop became the creative catalyst for her brand-new single "Finish Line”. The track opens with an eerie, intimate psychological hook—a whispered dialogue (“-shh, quiet! -Are they sleeping? -In a way, but they pretend to be awake") that sets a fragile, lullaby-like atmosphere, gradually transitioning into heavier almost Industrial sound, yet never abandoning that coffee-machine bassline and harmonic complexity.

Added to FAS Spotify playlists indie pop and our times.

Find A Song reminding you that life is what you make of it

The Bankes Brothers - Risk It All

Find A Song that revels in a confident, sensuous power

Shab - Perfume

Underpinned by a driving beat and laced with the kind of fast, shimmering Middle Eastern vibe that has become a quietly distinctive strand of SHAB’s sound, ‘Perfume’ is both propulsive and hypnotic, the musical equivalent of catching someone’s eye across a crowded room and immediately knowing that the night just changed.

Lyrically, ‘Perfume’ revels in a confident, sensuous power. SHAB moves through the track as a woman fully aware of her effect on an audience. With a focal chorus verse of “I wanna shine like a new Ferrari / I get you high on my perfume", the track is bursting with desire and magnetism: the pull of a woman who reconfigures the spaces surrounding her.

Added to FAS Spotify playlist indie pop.

Find A Song about broken promises

The Tame and the Wild - Perfect Never Makes It

Find A Song about the slow work of healing

i give my friends flowers - pollen

The track unveils a colorful, atmospheric alt-pop and electronic-soul production, representing the lead single from the EP A RIVER RUNS THROUGH ME.

i give my friends flowers is the songwriting project of Jacob Klein, based in Asheville, NC, built with a rotating circle of friends. The music moves between indie soul, lo-fi folk, dream pop, and alt hip-hop, pieced together from basement recordings, studio sessions, and voice memos captured everywhere from forests to friends' living rooms. "pollen" feels like the perfect distillation of the project’s broader mission: a search for stability amidst constant flux. The track began, like much of the EP, in a confessional space -- just piano and vocals -- but quickly evolved into a warmer, expansive, and more restless electronic territory, heavily inspired by the drum production on Sampha’s Lahai.

Lyrically, the song hits on that universal friction between distraction and the slow, grueling work of healing. It explores what we reach for when we’re feeling vulnerable: the partying, the new towns, the quick fixes. By the second verse, the focus shifts to the more difficult internal work of actually sitting with what you feel instead of running from it.

The EP itself, A RIVER RUNS THROUGH ME, is deeply shaped by the aftermath of Hurricane Helene and the loss of what we previously considered "home." It’s a record about ephemerality, disconnection, and the attempt to verify whether the world is still solid when the ordinary markers of your life have been erased.

Find A Song that embraces power and resilience

The Stevenson Ranch Davidians - Love, Light, Beauty & Truth

"This song is from a collection of material that was recorded in the spring of 2019, just over a year after the release of our last LP, 'Amerikana', and just under a year before the entire world was abruptly thrown into one of its darkest periods in modern history," says Dwayne Seagraves.

"To say that the music felt relevant at the time is an understatement, yet, somehow the time was not quite right for its release. Now here we are some seven years later and the songs’ relevance hasn’t faded. Maybe that makes it timeless. Maybe that’s exactly what we intended it to be."

Find A Song about the permanent exhaustion caused by the modern lifestyle

Deer Anna - Aren't You Tired

Find A Song about the beauty of accepting life's unexpected detours

Cade Hoppe - Lake Michigan

Indie-pop artist Cade Hoppe returns with his new single, "Lake Michigan." Accompanied by an official music video, the track is driven by warm grooves, shimmering melodies, and a sense of wide-open possibility as Hoppe reflects on expectations, ambition, and the beauty of accepting life's unexpected detours. "It's a story about driving from the East Coast to the West Coast, hoping to make it to the Pacific Ocean,” Hoppe shares. “But life never goes as planned, and sometimes you've got to make peace with only ever making it to Lake Michigan—after all, they basically look the same."

Find A Song asking if we can travel further

The Veldt - Morning, June and Yesterday

Find A Song about the disorientation of adolescence

Annabelle Tiffin - Daffodils

A melancholic, cinematic indie-pop track that captures the tender disorientation of adolescence with remarkable emotional clarity. The piano-and-strings arrangement provides an intimate backdrop for Annabelle's exploration of that hazy, overwhelming feeling of being young and uncertain about your place in the world. At its heart, 'Daffodils' is about those quietly profound moments when we need someone to help us see our own worth, acknowledging that self-love sometimes requires another person to plant the seed.

Added to FAS Spotify playlist singer/songwriter.

Find A Song that explores friendship

Ecce Shnak - Eddie, Legalistic Homeslice

"Like 'Larry, Sleepover Friend' from our 2019 'Joke Oso' EP, our new song is a garage-rock homage to a beloved friend of mine. Like 'Larry', 'Eddie' explores big themes in great friendships: their gnarly ambivalences, their absurd misunderstandings, their inside-jokes, and their contradictory mix of irreverence with utmost care," says David Roush. 'Eddie' reaches its lyrical denouement with what is said to be the “oldest prayer of friendship,” and also sounds like a throwaway Rivers Cuomo line: “I pray you don’t be a rat in a rat-suit! Pray you don’t be a rat in a rat-costume!”

Find A Song that is a tribute to a late friend

James Zero - Past Is Perfect

What appears to be a love song reveals itself as a poignant tribute to a friend James lost years ago, with the title reflecting the philosophy that our past—however painful—shapes who we become. The track marks a significant milestone as the first song where Zero truly showcases his guitar prowess, featuring melodic riffs and an impressive solo that add new dimensions to his sonic palette. As Zero himself notes, "The past is always perfect, it shows us who we should be. It's how I remember you—it's how you remember me."

Added to FAS Spotify playlist alt rock.

Find A Song about transition

Mathis Akengin - Passage des Fleurs

His debut album, ‘Passage des Fleurs’, is a letter to his Turkish grandfather. A love story without instructions, where words sometimes fall short but the connection remains. The title comes from the “Çiçek Pasajı”, a passageway in Istanbul where he spent part of his youth, a place of transition where the fragile meets the powerful, the fly meets the elephant.

Find A Song about the gap between how someone presents and what's actually going on

French Nancy - The Wait and Fall

It's a song about the gap between how someone presents and what's actually going on - and about a more fundamental tension: trying to work out what you're meant to be doing while suspecting you don't have much control over any of it. The music pushes forward, the narrator tries to keep up, the body gives out. Nothing resolves.