I've no idea how I ran across Daughter of Swords (Durham, NC) but I was immediately smitten with "Talk to You." High energy pop tendencies with yearning melancholy self-doubt lyrics - sign me up! The album from which that single emerges - Alex - is set for release on April 11th. If I wasn't already hooked, this had me insta-preorder:

Daughter of Swords’ music has grown thornier, an unpredictable and knotty tangle of technicolor synths, heady guitar, bubbling rhythms, a sheen enveloping songs about raw human intensity writ large – crushes, desire, anger, alienation, the horrors of late-stage capitalism, the cascading paradigm shifts it seems we're all hurtling toward.

The video is brand new to me but I love the analog glitched out effects and playful nature of it; undermining those lyrics. Get this in your ears.