This segment features artists who have submitted their tracks/videos to She Makes Music. If you would like to be featured here then please send an e-mail to helen@shemakesmusic.co.uk. We look forward to hearing from you!
Leksi Harris
Leksi Harris is a singer-songwriter and recording artist from New York City, blending raw lyricism with cinemtic production that lives between DIY intimacy and pop ambition. With inspirations like Ariana Grande, Dijon, and Mk.gee, her sound drips with soul, nostalgia, and unexpected edge. Her debut album HIATUS is an emotional archive – equal parts coming-of-age confession booth, and love letter to the girl she used to be.
The soft and vulnerable stand out track ‘pretty’ can be heard below. “‘Pretty’ came to me from a dream where someone called me beautiful—and I woke up crying,” explains Leksi. “It made me realize how deeply I craved that kind of affirmation. The song is about that quiet ache for validation, not just from others, but from myself.”
viv
viv found songwriting later in life, writing her first song at 44. Music was always close to her heart, but it took her years to find her instrument — the guitar — in her late 30s. Over the past two difficult years, especially since the terrible war in her region started, writing music has been both a great privilege, a dream come true, and a way to get through without breaking. She pours everything into her songs, hoping they’ll resonate with anyone who needs them.
Her song ‘Outside-Inside War’ is a reflection on the chaos around us and the chaos within us. Against real-world brutal conflict, it explores fear, illness, helplessness, and the fragile hope that someday, both kinds of war might end.
This track is part of her debut EP Spring 46. Written and recorded between October 2023 and early 2025, Spring 46 reflects viv’s personal journey through a period of conflict in her region — “a time that has challenged and changed us all,” she says. These five songs attempt to give voice not only to private struggles but also to the shared emotional weight carried by so many. At its heart, Spring 46 is a call for empathy and healing — an attempt to bridge divides and offer a sense of connection to listeners on all sides. “Releasing this first body of work at the age of 46 gives the project additional resonance for me, embodying both resilience and hope.”
Lily Linscott
They say if you don’t laugh, you cry – so… why not both? For a lot of people, Mother’s Day can really suck – for a lot of really sucky reasons. The sense of dread in the lead-up to Mother’s Day is one that Lily knows all too well – and so is the guilt that comes with feeling that way.
Emerging pop artist Lily Linscott has just released her latest single ‘Mother’s Day’. Lily is passionate about writing songs that make people feel less alone. She brings a unique perspective to her song writing, navigating the highs and lows of growing up through the lens of a young girl from a broken home.
Based in Wellington, New Zealand, Lily first gained attention as a teenager by sharing original music on SoundCloud, drawing listeners in with her honest songwriting and joyful personality. After years of refining her craft, she marked her return to music through her social media series Doing One Thing Every Day to Pursue My Dream of Being An Artist. Now, following a Main Stage performance at Festival One 2025, Lily is excited to be reconnecting with her growing audience and officially releasing new music.
Bethany Weimers
Oxford-based independentartist Bethany Weimers’ new single ‘Tabula Rasa’ combines haunting layers of vocals, and pulsating pianos with her signature folk-influenced narrative style to create a hypnotic and atmospheric gem of a song. It’s the third track to be released from her upcoming EP The Story I Breathe, and explores themes of rebirth and renewal.
“I wrote ‘Tabula Rasa,’ which means ‘blank slate’ in Latin, as I rebuilt my life after the ending of a significant relationship. The repeated phrase ‘tabula rasa’ became like a mantra to me as I willed myself to shake off the past and embrace the new,” she says.
Prairiez
Alternative artist Prairiez has self-released her single, ‘Subtitles For Blushing’, to launch her debut EP.
Based in the UK, Prairiez is the solo project of Arabella Florence, a mixed race multi-instrumentalist, audio engineer and former heavy metal frontwoman.
This is an EP that shares a mutable perspective of loneliness, love of all kinds, ambition and freedom – it is a mostly fictional tale set to music with an unreliable narrator and it is part one of a collection of music heavily inspired by, and laden with symbolism from film and ‘glamour meeting decay’.
Explaining the intention behind the project, the artist writes: “It will exist as an intro to my musical world, or rather to Prairiez, and a tiny tribute to literary, musical—artistic rebellion and innovation. Its 100% self-produced, engineered etc and elements of it are deliberately left quite raw in order to showcase the ugly-beauty of human touch as the interpreter between creativity and the technology and tools we use to dialogue with our inspirations and references.
“I wanted it to feel as though you’re opening an old scrapbook, or a secondhand book and perhaps there are suggestions of its previous owner, or a note you weren’t meant to see. Hopefully I delivered that discovering an “artefact” experience.”
Mimi Satanista
Mimi Satanista is an experimental artist, producer, and glitch-poet using music as a weapon of connection and resistance.
After being diagnosed with psychosis in 2022, Mimi turned to music as a way to survive — and more importantly, to speak. What began as a personal outlet became a lifeline to others navigating mental illness, neurodivergence, trauma, and identity.
Their sound is a visceral fusion of glitch, experimental rap, industrial pop, and emotional distortion — inspired by artists like Zheani, The Buttress, and ZAND, but rooted deeply in lived experience.
Through releases like TRANSMISSION_FROM_THE_VOID, Mimi isn’t just sharing songs — they’re sending signals to others like them. This is music for outsiders. For survivors. For anyone who’s ever screamed into static and hoped someone would scream back.
TRANSMISSION_FROM_THE_VOID is the latest EP from genre-defying artist Mimi Satanista, a bold exploration of digital chaos, survivorhood, and identity.
Fusing glitchy production, distorted autotune, industrial textures, and elements of experimental rap, the project plays like a broadcast from a fractured consciousness. Each track leans into raw emotion, confronting themes of psychosis, trauma, and defiance with unflinching honesty.
The centerpiece, ‘RAGE IS A RITUAL,’ channels protest energy into a sonic purge, merging harsh vocals with digital noise and urgent lyricism.
Rosie Gault
In the aftermath of love, memories don’t vanish all at once – but slowly slip away until the story is truly over. Rosie Gault’s newest song ‘I’m Losing You’ captures the panic of forgetting someone you once held close, and the desperate chase for nostalgia. Blending ethereal vocals with delicate piano, this pop track combines Rosie’s love for cinematic production with her signature venerable lyricism.
Written in her hometown on the outskirts of Lincolnshire, this track embodies how it feels to lose the last piece of a relationship – the memories. ‘I realised I couldn’t remember if he had a middle name or not’ Rosie confesses, echoing the lyrics of the first chorus, ‘It sent me spiralling and I wrote this whole song at once’. Rosie has always declared that she wants to make songs that heal her audience, giving a voice to emotions that we often keep hidden, and ‘I’m Losing You’ is no exception. With the bridge lyric ‘once the sound of your voice leaves my head, there’s a space nothing can ever fill’, anyone struggling to accept the quiet absence of someone they once knew will find solace in this track.
This song is another co-produced track, created by Evan Anderson and Rosie Gault herself. “I love the way Evan invests himself in the story behind the song,” Rosie reflects, “it makes the creation of the music so much more authentic”. From dreamy synths to a wistful, acoustic guitar the instrumental of this track reflects the emotions of the words. “I wanted to have a heavy beat in the chorus to represent anxiety,” Rosie notes, “missing someone comes and goes in waves, so I wanted this song’s energy to do the same’. The Taylor Swift and Gracie Abrams influence in Rosie’s music is apparent in the carefully crafted lyricism and soundscape production of ‘I’m Losing You’, with enough energy for an easy listen and enough emotion to soothe your mind, this track makes the perfect window-seat song.
“I love referencing my other lyrics in related songs,” Rosie expresses, “the second verse is a big nod to my song Ford Fiesta”. From callbacks to new reflections, ‘I’m Losing You’ wraps heartache in comfort. It’s like gazing through a window at a love that’s slowly fading – with Rosie right beside you, narrating every bittersweet second.
Nushka
Nushka is a musician who creates immersive music. They tie their eclectic cultural background with immense vocal prowess to tell personal stories with the hope that others may relate to it.
Born in Bahrain and raised in the UAE, Nushka delves into using a wide range of musical influences, including their Indian heritage. They began penning lyrics as a pre-teen, influenced by the likes of Nine Inch Nails and A Perfect Circle. Realizing the rich musical culture they had been exposed to from countries they lived in and their South Asian heritage, they could not help but bring in the influences of classical music into their vocal delivery and musical style.
‘ChammAndy’ is Nushka’s latest release. It is the second track in a series of songs that have Malayalam titles, which is the dialect spoken in Kerala, where the artist’s ethnic roots are based. The title of the song is a play on the Malayalam word for a coarsely ground paste, ‘chammanthi’. Andy is the name of the character in the song, whom the singer is singing to. It’s a song about the confusion and frustration that comes from being gaslit. The song in split into 2 parts (some would say 3). It documents the movement of the performer who is questioning their interactions with Andy, to conclude that they are being mistreated by someone who isn’t in an appropriate state of mind. The ending has a melody reminiscent to ‘Smooth Criminal.’ This isn’t an ode to Michael Jackson. It’s simply a reflection of the artist’s understanding of someone as famous him and the delusions both him and Andy had of the hurt they caused.
boci
boci has released her second album scenes from uniXia – a psycho-magical concept album set in boci’s own world uniXia.
uniXia came to boci during a guided meditation, where she found herself in the folds of another world, gazing into a mirror portal. The reflection she saw was creature. The album follows creature’s first adventure through the world and their encounters with magical beings and spirits. Each song on the album invites the listener into a scene from this mystical journey.
scenes from uniXia’s symbolic story-telling is conveyed through a bold, maximalist, musical voyage led by boci and brought to life with the help of producer Rob Pemberton (The Staves, Cosmo Sheldrake). The album is exploratory in its essence, but takes inspiration from indie folk, psychedelic folk, folk rock, prog, electronica and alt-pop.
‘aXis’ is the turning point of the album. Through the journey of the album, the creature travels through a moon portal and lands in outer space staring back at the world of uniXia. From here, they experience the “overview effect”, which is a term used to describe the emotional and cognitive shift that astronauts experience when they see Earth from space. For the creature, this experience allows them to let go of stories and beliefs they’d been holding onto for too long.
Gabi Goldman
Swedish Pop and Pop and R&B artist Gabi Goldman returns with ‘Nostalgia’, an intimate and vulnerable track about the memories we hold onto, even when we shouldn’t. The song captures a soulful sense of longing wrapped in smooth vocals, dreamy chords, and minimalistic production.
‘Nostalgia’ is the final single from Gabi’s debut EP For Myself – a bold and honest project that explores not just strength, but the courage to be transparent. Across the EP, Gabi speaks openly about everything from messy situationships and drunk texts to lust, loneliness and self-reflection. It’s a celebration of imperfection and a reminder that being honest – even about our flaws – is its own kind of empowerment.
Check out more of our recent submissions via the playlist below!
