Leslie Graves & Toby Goodshank: Toby Goodshank (The Moldy Peaches, The Pizza Underground) of the OG New York Antifolk scene, is known for his precise and acrobatic vocals over nuanced acoustic guitar in songs that have been described as “a zesty thumb of the nose at domesticated bullshit.” (Myles Manley)
Leslie Graves (GOLD, Endless Arrows) is a performing songwriter and recording artist who takes folk subgenres into evocative and intriguing directions, including “sounding like something you could hear Donna Hayward dancing to at the Bang Bang Bar.” (Ronan Conroy, “Hidden In the Days” album review) Her voice has been described as “darkwave-meets-folk” with comparisons to Lana Del Rey, Cat Powers, Mazzy Star and Julee Cruise.
Together with engineer and producer Jake Nicoll of The Burning Hell, Toby and Leslie wrote and recorded “Between Worlds” in a way that was more “like chiseling away at a stone to reveal the sculpture underneath,” describes Graves. “I like when songs come like that - when it feels that they are teaching us as they are revealed."
https://tobygoodshank.bandcamp.com/album/between-worlds
Phoebe Kreutz: Phoebe Kreutz is a singer / songwriter / bookwriter / lyricist / glockenspielist, born and raised on the then-mean streets of New York City.
Hailed by the New Yorker as “the Kingpin of the Joke Folk genre”, she's brought her irreverent tunes to a million bars, clubs and castles all over America and Europe and has released 4 albums and 3 EPs— including Ma’am of Action on Lose/Lose Records and Leaky Canoe on Frankfurt's Lousy Moon Records.
https://www.therealphoebekreutz.com/bandcamp
Matt Colbourn: Matt Colbourn is a creative type in NYC. He edits television for work and makes art for fun, these days mostly music, watercolors and woodworking. He's currently working on a set of songs in Esperanto, a language constructed in the late 19th century to help usher in an international utopia.
https://mattcolbourn.bandcamp.com/music
Franzi Kafka: Berlin-based Franzi Kafka speaks songs and sings text. The music, when it is music, is melodic; when it is not, it becomes sound and atmosphere. Her work drifts between pop, chanson, electronic, storytelling, and performance.
https://youtu.be/uamYQK0uuAQ