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One to watch: Ekkstacy

The Canadian singer-songwriter has become a voice of his generation with his taut, melodic indie pop fuelled by a turbulent youth

Twenty-one-year-old singer-songwriter Ekkstacy (real name Khyree Zienty; known as Stacy) makes that music for his own cohort, offering up sweet, engaging vocals and guitars drenched in heady melodrama and deep feeling. The subsequent hospitalisation and aftermath left him depressed and anxious, so he began to channel the feelings into his music: woozy, rap-adjacent tracks, dour emo and plush indie pop. Ekkstacy is full of scuzzy, soaring guitars and lyrics about longing, drinking, self-loathing, possessiveness and, on lead single Chicago, the joys of getting lost in another person.

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