SYNTH-POP-SUN, DOOM-COUNTRY-RISING

Led by Pauli Mia (she/her) on vocals and synth, Philadelphia’s Twin Princess forges a mirrorball-lit realm in their 2023 debut album Blood Moon. Its shimmering, gloom-tinged songs carry a fanged tenderness, a vulnerable resilience — through vibrant emotion and a steady candor, the mundane becomes mystical. Here, revelation and renewal can happen in the cold light of a midnight CVS; revisiting and reevaluating memories of a city or sidewalk or bathtub that changed you proves as transformative as the lived moment; flowers poking through snow in winter become omens of perennial desire.