Chosen by Monk
Despite his tender years – he’s just 18 – our latest featured selection comes from an artist displays a tremendous maturity, especially when it comes to channeling musical influences from eras before he was even an evil twinkle in his momma and poppa’s eyes…
The grungy, alt-pop jam – which draws on the blueprint of his musical heroes like Chris Cornell and Billy Corgan, imbued with the playful opaqueness of Kurt Cobain and the easy slacker hooks of Weezer – is paired with a truly relatable lo-fi video shot on handheld cameras by Hunter and a bunch of his friends. If you haven’t been shirtless in a shopping cart and feverishly raced down the street you grew up on, have you ever even been young?
‘Queen of the Slum’ is about being young in a relationship and how love feels like an unpolished but exciting time in life where we are all trying to find our place in the chaos, explained Oliveri.