No. 18

Jacqueline Hackett is a Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter with a nostalgic, slow burning sound that touches on themes of love and loss; connecting to her audience through unfiltered lyricism and acute moments of vulnerability.

Sweetbreads is the project of singer-songwriter Melody Stolpp. Her emotionally rich songs blend indie folk, alt-country, and sharp storytelling into a sound that is distinctly her own. Exploring family dynamics, relationships, anxiety, optimism, and the complicated beauty of life, she writes with empathy, curiosity, and unflinching sincerity.

Nora Meier is a diehard music fan, a frequent moviegoer, a daughter of two English majors, an Oregonian at heart, a verbal processor, a big reader, extremely stubborn, and always writing. What Spectrum Culture calls her “Old World sense of wear and wonder” finds balance in a fresh realism born from a deep attention to the details of everyday living. Meier’s songwriting is an invitation to take a clear-eyed look at ourselves and the world around us with a healthy dose of humor and warmth.

Cameron Peak is a Boston-based songwriter whose songs are a blend of indie, alternative, and folk stylings of present and past. Lyrics range from the serious (loss, breakups, coming of age) to the mundane, and they float atop lush acoustic guitar voicings.

Working across writing, film, and photography, Annabel Smith is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the relationship between consciousness, memory, and human interiority. Rooted in close observation, her prose and visual art additionally examines how the natural world shapes the emotional and psychological experience.