New Music Friday

Focused and fearless, 13-year-old Mia Baron is a force to be reckoned with. The young songwriter has already won several singing competitions in her short life.

Mia‘s debut single, “Hide and Seek,” is a moody pop track telling the story of feeling unseen and invisible. The playful title of the track is juxtaposed with dark lyrics and sparse production.

TITUS BANK has a voice that can stop an audience in its tracks. The Vancouver-based pop adventurer can effortlessly shift from a smooth croon to a soulful vibrato to a note-perfect howl — arresting and inviting; confident yet vulnerable.

TITUS is now entering the next phase of an already-prolific music career via the unveiling of “I Do Yeah,” the first seismic single from his forthcoming debut solo album. While TITUS previously made waves with his ambitious, song-a-day 365 Songwriting Challenge (during which he wrote, recorded and released 185 in the span of a year), “I Do Yeah” showcases a more mature and fully realized pop vision.

The song is the result of multiple writing sessions with Toronto pop quartet Valley—evolving from a sea breeze acoustic sway towards an incandescent swirl of synths, tasteful tremolo-and-fuzz dusted licks, punctuated by TITUS‘ rafters-reaching vocal glide.