New Artists to Watch – October 2025, as presented by Obscure Agency
In partnership with Obscure Agency
By Daniel Fusch
Obscure Agency presents six voices expanding the boundaries of sound and identity.
Some records land like statements. Others feel like thresholds. This month’s artists are not here to entertain passively. Their work holds presence, tension, and intent. There’s elegance, but also rupture. Beauty, but never decoration.
Whether rooted in club culture, ambient grief, distorted low-end, or cinematic poetics, each project reflects a shift. Together, the works highlight subtle changes in sound and perspective.
BlackJeans
BlackJeans is a genre-bending songwriter and performer from Ridgewood, Queens, a clown of chaos and Jester of Jubilation. Known as the Dom of Denim, he’s built a following through his theatrical party series End of The World, a staple of New York’s underground dance scene. Backed by his live band The Sick Fucks, he hosts a space where late bloomers, misfits, and club kids move freely and dance hard.
His latest project, End of The World Pt. 1, is the first in a four-part EP series co-produced with Adam Thein (Djo). Singles like YAUGHNIT, PIXIE DUST, and HOPSCOTCH deliver bombastic electronic production and unrelenting party anthems, and the full EP will continue rolling out through late 2025.
There’s no interest in fitting in. BlackJeans builds their own language with sound, costume, tension, and release.
Gabba Delic
Gabba Delic writes from in-between spaces. Moving to Vienna from Nashville, her new album Vienna Waits for No One captures the tension between two lives, two cities, and the decision to stay in motion. Dreamy retro synths, distorted tones, and psych-pop textures shape a sound that’s both fluid and insistent.
The project follows her 2021 debut Pack My Bags, a record rooted in travel and psychedelic disorientation. This new chapter leans deeper into contrast: soft edges wrapped around sharp instincts, raw vocals layered over cinematic arrangements. Singles like Like Lovers Do, City Girl Disco, and Strawberry Daydream evoke escape, but never detachment.
Gabba Delic moves through her work with intention. Every track resists stillness. Every line feels like a decision made mid-step.
Holy Mantra
Holy Mantra is the solo project of Simone Castellani, a multi-instrumentalist from Aosta, Italy. After years studying drums, guitar, bass, and production, he began building his sound layer by layer. The result is a dense, low-frequency blend of metal influences filtered through a raw and personal lens.
His 2024 demo Re-spiritual marked an early step into this world. It introduced a hybrid style shaped by artists like Tool, Sepultura, and Mastodon. His latest single Dominium Abyssi brings a heavier tone, with doom-inflected riffs, slow-building orchestral tension, and deep atmospheric textures. The track opens slowly, but once inside, it stays there.
In his work, the direction moves between death, black, thrash, and stoner metal, always anchored in tension and contrast. Holy Mantra doesn’t chase clarity. He builds weight, and lets it speak.
Julia Piedade
Julia Piedade builds bridges between Brazil and France through music that blends delicacy with precision, as shown in her 2024 debut album Chimères, a body of work shaped by French-Brazilian poetry, jazz harmonies, and electronic textures.
Produced by Diogo Strausz, Chimères explores identity, movement, and longing. Its layered arrangements move between sunlit grooves and introspective melancholy, carried by lyrics rich in symbolism. The single Solstice, filmed among the dunes of Portugal, introduced her visual world with a quiet sense of grandeur.
On stage, Julia invites the listener inward. Whether solo or in trio formation, her presence is intimate, but never fragile. She continues to trace a personal geography through voice and piano, offering music that is both grounded and luminous.
Greenness
Greenness is built on dialogue. Between English and French, digital and acoustic, precision and emotion. Formed by singer-songwriter Cess Frangi and producer Graham Pratt, the duo creates music that feels intimate yet expansive, shaped by folk roots and experimental textures.
Their 2022 debut album Sunrooms, recorded and produced independently during lockdown, introduced a world of layered harmonies, analogue warmth, and soft defiance.
After a residency at Brighton Dome, Greenness returned with Honeymoons, out November 14. The new album expands their language further, exploring duality and disorientation through a refined alt-folk electronica lens. Every track feels hand-built, precise without being cold. A record that listens as much as it speaks.
JessC
JessC writes with clarity. A Malaysian-born, Australia-based artist, she approaches songwriting as both expression and restoration. Her new album Six Feet Deep marks her first full-length in English after years of releasing work in Mandarin and Malay. It opens space for silence, reflection, and unspoken weight.
The title track moves like ritual. Other songs like 5AM and One Chance shift between restraint and motion, but always return to the core: letting go of what no longer fits. There is no posturing in the delivery. Every word serves the release.
Six Feet Deep is more than a stylistic turn. Written between Australia and the US, it draws on cinematic rock, ambient textures, and carefully tuned frequencies that speak to JessC’s training as a therapeutic musician. Her understanding of sound and its effects on the body is embedded in every detail, without turning the music into theory.
There’s a sense of stillness in her recent visuals too. Low lighting, minimal staging, gestures held long enough to resonate. JessC doesn’t amplify emotion. She holds it in place. This album doesn’t stretch to be universal. It waits, and finds those who are ready for it.
October doesn’t speak in bright colors. It listens, it slows down, and it asks the work to hold.
These six artists do exactly that. Each of these six artists captures that sense of stillness in their own way.
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