Caley Conway (Milwaukee, WI)

Caley Conway

Rooted in folk but hardly bound to it, Caley Conway's inventive style ranges from jazz to post-rock, hints at the familiar, and embraces a dissonant beauty. The Milwaukeean's breezy voice and disarming wit belie a deep sonic complexity, bringing a new set of rules to the singer-songwriter paradigm.

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Bryn Battani

Slyly intense and disarmingly earnest, Bryn Battani weaves clever lyrics with unexpected arrangements. Influenced by Fiona Apple and Andrew Bird, she supports her writing with "chamber pop” instrumentation colored by her folk-rock roots and theatrical background. Her songs oscillate between melodrama and vulnerability, examining social politics, thorny entanglements, and other anxieties.