Artists like Kelsey Lu

Brittney Denise Parks, better known by her stage name Sudan Archives, is an American violinist, singer, and songwriter based in Los Angeles, California. Parks learned to play the violin by ear as a young child in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Moses Sumney is an American singer-songwriter and actor. His self-recorded EP, Mid-City Island, was released in 2014. He released another five-song EP in 2016, titled Lamentations. His first full-length album, Aromanticism, was released in September 2017. His second studio album, Græ, was released in 2020. Sumney has performed as an opening act for James Blake, Solange Knowles, and Sufjan Stevens. In 2023, he was featured on The Weeknd's HBO TV series The Idol.

Julia Shammas Holter is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, composer, artist, and academic, based in Los Angeles. Her work has received critical acclaim and incorporates elements of art pop, chamber pop, baroque pop and ambient. Following three independent album productions, Holter released Tragedy as her first official studio album in 2011. Ekstasis followed in 2012. After signing with Domino Records in 2013, she released the albums Loud City Song (2013), Have You in My Wilderness (2015), the live-in-the-studio album In the Same Room (2017) and the double album Aviary (2018).

Alewya Demmisse, known artistically as Alewya, is a British singer, songwriter, producer, multidisciplinary artist, and model.

Erika de Casier e Ramos Lizardo, known professionally as Erika de Casier, is a Portuguese-born Danish singer, songwriter, and record producer. She began her career performing as half of the R&B duo Saint Cava. After the duo disbanded, she independently released her debut studio album, Essentials, in 2019. She signed to British record label 4AD in 2020 and released her second studio album, Sensational, in 2021.

Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho, known professionally as Arlo Parks, is an English singer and songwriter. Her debut studio album, Collapsed in Sunbeams, was released in 2021 to critical acclaim and peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart. It earned her nominations for Album of the Year, Best New Artist and Best British Female Solo Artist at the 2021 Brit Awards. It won the 2021 Mercury Prize for Best Album.

Tirzah Miriam Lois Mastin, better known mononymously as Tirzah is an English singer-songwriter. Her first solo record, the EP I'm Not Dancing, was released in 2013 on Greco-Roman. Her debut studio album, Devotion, was released in 2018 on Domino. Her second studio album Colourgrade was released in 2021 and her third trip9love followed in 2023, both also on Domino. She has collaborated frequently with musician Mica Levi and Coby Sey, and has contributed to works by Tricky, Kwes, Dels, Mura Masa, Blood Orange and others.

Dua Saleh is a Sudanese-American singer and actor based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They released their debut EP in 2019 followed by two additional EPs in 2020 and 2021, and their first studio album in 2024.

Magi Merlin is a Canadian musician and actress.

Jonathan Josiah Wise, known professionally as serpentwithfeet, is an R&B singer based in Brooklyn, New York City. Wise signed with the English record label Tri Angle to release his debut extended play (EP), Blisters (2016). He entered a joint venture with Secretly Canadian to release his debut studio album, soil (2018), which was met with critical acclaim. His second EP, Apparition (2020), and his second and third albums, Deacon (2021) and Grip (2024), were each met with continued critical praise.

Ravyn Lenae Washington is an American singer and songwriter from Chicago, currently signed to Atlantic Records and the Three Twenty Three Music Group. She is also a member of the musical collective Zero Fatigue. Her debut EP, Moon Shoes, was released independently in 2015 and later reissued by Atlantic Records in 2016. Her follow up EP, Midnight Moonlight, was released in 2017. She has performed at several music festivals and in 2017 toured with SZA on her Ctrl Tour and Noname on her Telefone Tour. Her discography blends elements of "R&B, pop, dance, rock, Afrobeats and reggae", according to Billboard.

Natalie Laura Mering, known professionally as Weyes Blood, is an American singer, songwriter, and musician.

Jockstrap are an English musical duo consisting of Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye, who met at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2016. The duo's music has been categorised by critics as experimental pop and art pop, combining Ellery's half-whispered vocals and string arrangements with Skye's electronic production.

Michael Alden Hadreas, better known by his stage name Perfume Genius, is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. Hadreas's indie music stylistically explores pop and rock with various influences and atmospheres. The themes in his music have included sexuality, his personal struggle with Crohn's disease, domestic abuse, and the dangers faced by gay men in contemporary society.

Nicolas Hakim is an American musician based in Queens, New York, United States. His first EP, Where Will We Go Part 1 & 2, was self-released in 2014. He released three albums with ATO: Green Twins (2017), Will This Make Me Good (2020), and Cometa (2022).

Willow Camille Reign Smith, also known mononymously as Willow, is an American singer, actress, and dancer. The daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, she has received various accolades, including a Young Artist Award, an NAACP Image Award, a BET Award, and nominations for two Daytime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and a MTV Video Music Award.

Raveena Kaur Aurora, known mononymously as Raveena, is an American singer and songwriter. Her music blends the genres contemporary R&B, soul, jazz, and pop with instrumentations influenced by Indian music.

Anne Erin Clark, known professionally as St. Vincent, is an American musician, singer and songwriter. Her guitar-playing has been praised for its melodic style and use of distortion, and she has been listed among the best guitarists of the 21st century by publications. Rolling Stone named Clark the 26th-greatest guitarist of all time in 2023.

Marie Louise Buch is a Danish musician, composer, and producer. She released her debut album Skinned in 2020 and her sophomore album Suntub in 2023, both to critical acclaim.

Jordan Stephens, known professionally as Jae Stephens, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Originally from Dallas, Texas, and raised in Pasadena, California, she initially gained popularity on the microblogging platform Tumblr before launching her music career professionally. She is known for her musical style, which blends 2000s R&B nostalgia with futuristic pop elements.

Kelly Lee Owens is a Welsh electronic musician and producer. She released her self-titled debut album in March 2017 to critical praise. Her sophomore album, Inner Song, was released in August 2020, followed by LP.8 in April 2022 and Dreamstate in October 2024.