Kylee Phillips

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Genre: Indie Pop

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Kylee Phillips is a Michigan-native vocalist, pianist, and songwriter of deeply self-exposing pop music. Armed with an arresting, emotive, laser-focused voice, and an unrivaled ear for hooks and melodic contour, Phillips has garnered cult-like acclaim in the midwest and beyond since her explosive debut EP Long Time Coming.

The title is strangely apt, as Phillips was a beloved hidden gem in the Detroit scene for over a decade before materializing as a fresh face and urgent new presence in the indie/pop world. The EP satisfies broadly while leaving us wanting more, especially after we ride through the guitar-saturated erotic agitation of Home To You, the pyrotechnic regret of Where You Found Me, and the unwelcome epiphany of the haunting title track. The songs are brought into technicolor clarity by rising star producer Evan Eliason. After the overwhelming response to this 2023 debut, Eliason came on board again for Phillips’ 2024 release The Good Parts, which sees Phillips continue to sharpen her lyrical adeptness and autobiographical insight.

Kylee’s anthemic, sonically dense songs alchemize the sincerity of a midwest heart with the prowess and unabashed indulgence usually reserved for coastal voices. Here listeners find the body-cleansing catharsis of femme-pop luminaries like MUNA and Maggie Rogers, intertwined with the heartstring-pulling, hands-raised surrender of a worship conference. Every track makes equal space for the tears and the pulse-pounding we didn’t realize we needed so badly.

Whether she’s singing about a failed relationship, a distant yearning, or an existential inquiry into the human experience, the integral throughline through Kylee’s songs is the unwavering voice of a woman who refuses to fear her own intelligence, agency, anger, and desires. In a world with no shortage of self-help sad-babe media, Phillips weaves together a sensual, articulate, and unpretentiously therapeutic soundtrack for the lives we live but can’t always verbalize. She lends us an experiential wisdom that could only come from a massive heart that’s seen a lot of garbage and emerged transformed and immovable.

RIYL: Maggie Rogers, MUNA, Holly Humberstone

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