Avery Tucker has written a lot of songs. People familiar with LA’s DIY scene in the 2010s will know Avery’s first musical outlet was the band Girlpool. At 17, when Girlpool was originally signed, Avery was a curly, redheaded teenage girl listening to artists like Neil Young, The Cure, Roxy Music and shredding the guitar. The band had a successful career, touring and releasing five albums. In 2018, upon launching What Chaos Is Imaginary and after coming out as transgender, Avery began feeling the pull to go solo, but it wasn’t until after Girlpool’s final album Forgiveness did the group decide to separate. 

Avery remains based in LA and is now readying his debut solo outing. The songs are a bit Bonnie & Clyde - he’s got you in the car driving recklessly together into the sunset. It’s you and him against the world, but he’s also ready to love it all and go barefoot in the sand.

Casey MQ is known for his 2020 breakthrough album babycasey, which gave voice to songs seen through the lens of childhood, various film score work, and collaborations with artists such as Oklou, Eartheater, and Shygirl. His gifts as a producer and songwriter are rooted in textural world-building and the excavation of personal truth. Casey also co-founded Club Quarantine, a queer virtual club that has hosted artists such as Charli XCX, Lady Gaga, Tinashe, Pabllo Vittar and others.

His new album for Ghostly, Later that day, the day before, or the day before that, came about as Casey spiraled into subconscious-led writing sessions at the piano. With the new material he questions what is true entirely, understanding our mind's tendency to bend and project onto pictures of the past. Across vivid, baroque pop balladry, Casey reorients his recording project and point of view under the notion that memories are malleable. All the joy, pain, love, and loss housed within remembrance is open to interpretation and deconstruction, which he does deftly, with curiosity and complete artistic freedom. On Later that day..., Casey combines his electronica expertise with his love for piano compositions to create an atmosphere, giving Casey's more spacious, minimal arrangements a distinct luster and sheen. The textures and tones shift from song to song as if mirroring the way our minds constantly recontextualize, remember, and forget.

Com Truise is the nom de guerre of producer and designer Seth Haley, raised in upstate NY and currently working out of LA. His synth and sci-fi-obsessed records are as infectious as they are expansive. From his breakout EP in 2010, Cyanide Sisters, to his first LP for Ghostly in 2011, Galactic Melt, and his numerous records, remixes and collections to follow, Com Truise has refined his singular style of melodic beat music. Each piece ties together his ideas of synth-wave and slow-motion funk amidst a glowing backdrop of rich, nostalgic pathos.

Though undoubtedly influenced by his parents' record collections and old, faded product design, the Com Truise project doesn't only pull from the past. Hints of Joy Division, New Order and Cocteau Twins bubble up in every prismatic piece, but it's as if they're processed through a waterlogged game console — warped, cybernetic and high-definition. Uniquely, Com Truise sounds both familiar and uncanny, and always handmade.

Hayden Dunham (Hyd) is a multimedia artist perhaps best known for their work with the controversial project QT they created alongside SOPHIE and A. G. Cook. In addition to music under their Hyd moniker, Dunham’s work bridges performance, sound and sculpture – assemblages that move from terrestrial to the synthetic, tracking the flow of energy through states of materiality. Dunham has designed experiential works comprising malleable and ethereal materials – silicon, chlorophyll, glass, steam, sound, performance, vapor, light, porcelain, metal, silk and GEL, a substance created by Dunham that appears in liquid and breathing forms. Analogously, Dunham’s practice is both concealed and alive, occasionally rupturing and opening in on itself.

Dunham’s artwork has been shown at MoMA PS1, New Museum, Foundation Louis Vuitton, the Barbican, the Bass Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami among others, while their music has been performed in clubs and at festivals around the world. 

Hyd's new EP for PC Music brings together a collective of close friends and frequent co-lab-orators, including A. G. Cook, Caroline Polachek, umru, and Nomak. The music explores what it means to move between forms, inheriting one shape while transforming into another.