With this cold and rainy weather, there is nothing better than music to warm us up! Hopefully, Deer Du Bois’ new playlist is here!

Written during a vacation under the L.A. sun, the new Benji Lewis song is a duo love-ballad on unreachable love in “Never Mine”. London-based artist Arlo deals with people breaking their promises in “Safe”.

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On “Forget Forgive”, we feel the nightly vibes of Someone, while she wrote this very personal song during one night in Amsterdam. Like a moonlit chant, deep in the woods, NY band Loma brings us the hypnotizing “Black Willow”.

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With young and emerging alt-pop star Noah De Leon, we discover the difficulties of connecting to the people closest to you, when you are struggling with your own identity on “Big Blue Eyes”. Berlin-based artist Fil Bo Riva is a bold artist with playful songwriting in his new single “Head Sonata (Love Control)”.

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London-over-Gothenburg singer Francis Novotny amazes us with his newest track “Broken Arrow”, an empowering song mixing his angelic voice with warm Eastern rhythms. On “New Supplier”, Airplane Man are looking for a remedy to cure their heartbreak and finally find the light.

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And with the Chicago songstress and mistress of pop Fee Lion, we go up into electric air on her buzzing and haunting track “On Me”!

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In search for the perfect emotive pop track, the Detroit-based artist doesn’t hesitate on sharing his deepest feelings. Mixing adventurous electronic vibes with pop catchy choruses, he shares his story about trying to find his inner identity while still trying to fit whatever everyone is expecting from him. How often have you felt about fitting in while it is not actually your true personality? In a world where everyone is trying to pretend to be their best self, Noah De Leon shows us that there is nothing better than being ourselves.

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Our superheroes in music join forces together on this new Deer Du Bois playlist!

On the first tones of ‘Crescent’, singer Saatsuma opens with “Superman…”, taken from her upcoming debut album. Canadian, but Berlin-based sensual electronic pop singer Antoine93 directs us to a ‘Destination Unknown’.

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Nashville’s gender-bending pop-singer-songwriter Benjamin Poss sings away heartbreak on his stunning single ‘Satellites’. From NME, where he won “most promising new artist” comes talented afro-electro-soul crooner Caleb Kunle on the softest new track ‘Eden’, the title track of his diverse debut EP.

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And NY emerging musician Low Fem gives us a fresh slice of synth ballad on ‘City Life!’ But we should never forget the ‘Better Days‘, thanks to newcomer Noah de Leon, even if they are sometimes ‘Hurtin’ as Toulouse sings it!

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Reminding the likes of Morrissey, the young Detroit-based artist started playing music at the age of 14 in different bands around the area. Playing at a such young age shaped his career as an artist, defining himself by now as “post-emo pop star.” His first single “Better Days” is the result of a collaboration with producer Cheer Captain who helped him exorcize this old turbulent relationship. We had the chance to discuss with Noah De Leon about his debut, inspirations, what’s next for his career and more.

Highclouds: Can you introduce yourself to our readers who don’t know you yet?

Nice to meet you. My name is Noah. I make post-emo pop music out of the Detroit area in the United States.

How did you start making music?

I’m a solo artist, but I regularly collaborate with Cheer Captain, a friend of mine who produced and helped write this track along with a number of others that I’m preparing to release in the near future. We started working together after meeting at a gig my old band played in his hometown.

What can you tell us about your debut “Better Days”?

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“Better Days” is about the two years of my life I spent in a turbulent romantic/creative relationship, and the time I took to get back to a human-feeling headspace again. The whole experience gave me a much clearer perspective on a lot of personal changes I needed to make in order to find out exactly who I was, and that fed directly into the music that I began to write during and after that era of my life. I wanted the minimal production of the song to make you feel like you were inside my mind, as unclear and foggy as it was at that time.

How would you describe your music and why?

I’ve always enjoyed pulling influences from as many places as possible when writing music. I write pop music in the sense that I like to build melodies and sing lyrics that touch familiar places, but with production and instrumentals that put a post-modern spin on the typical pop format. My brain never stays in one place for too long and naturally neither does my way of writing music, and that’s my favorite thing about it all.

Where do you find your inspirations?

I grew up playing guitar in noisy emo-rock bands, but then would get home from a gig and put on Radiohead or Kanye or something else- it’s always something different. As far as lyrics, I tend to record whatever comes directly to my mind at the time, even if it doesn’t sound like something singable. It eventually finds its way, and it’s a lot more natural for me than sitting down and intentionally trying to write about any specific topic. Sometimes I won’t know exactly what a song is about until I’m already recording it.

Une publication partagée par NDL (@itsnoahdeleon) le 3 Juil. 2017 à 17h19 PDT

“I’ve been recording myself singing and playing guitar since all I had was my grandmother’s old tape machine.” [su_spacer]Noah de Leon

How do you start creating music?

I’ve been recording myself singing and playing guitar since all I had was my grandmother’s old tape machine. I eventually started producing my own demos on Garageband in grade school, and the rest is history.

If you have to compare your music with a meal, which meal would you pick?

[Laughs] This is a great question. Probably a really tasty, homemade vegetarian stir-fry. It fills you up in ways you didn’t expect when you took the first bite, but you finish feeling like you’ve learned something brand new about your taste buds.

What can we expect from you in the future?

More music in 2017.

Do you have any song to recommend us right now?

Yeah! Check out “Fiji” by Sam Austins x Take a Daytrip & ”Black Hole Jesus Christ” by a band called Greet Death.

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You can follow Noah De Leon over Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and listen to the audio below.