There’s something thrilling about coming across an underrated artist – the feeling of being in an exclusive club, one of the few able to experience wonderful, yet secretive music. It’s apt then that I should have been introduced to this underrated artist, through her collaboration with another, Still Woozy (and co, Cautious Clay, Sophie Meiers, Claud, Melanie Faye & HXNS), on their recent release, Cheesin’, on which she lends her vocals to the first verse.

24 year-old Californian, Remi Wolf, is possibly more underrated than the aforementioned Woozy (a contradiction to my last article on him, I know). Relatively new on the scene, she has over a million monthly listeners on Spotify, and a few thousand views on her YouTube channel – but not enough people are clued up on her. So, let me get you up to speed.

Her voice is addictive, one of the most interesting and impressive I’ve heard for some time, managing to strike the balance between aggressive and subdued in her songs. Not only are her lyrics always perfectly executed, they’re also wildly funny. ‘Woo!’, released in April this year, features gems like, ‘got botched like a fucked up lip surgery / and the dentist always telling me to floss my teeth’, and ‘fuck I think I lost my wallet’. ‘Disco Man’, her most recent song, describes a character who reminds me of those young male entrepreneurs who say things like ‘rise and grind’ – ‘he likes his cherries when they’re maraschino / he likes his movies when they’re Tarantino’, and ‘he’s a disco man / and he’s got a lot of fiscal plans’. Her aesthetic is loud, if not slightly horrifying at times, with her music videos full to the brim with rainbow humanoids that take you on a trip through uncanny valley (see ‘Photo ID’ and ‘Disco Man’). Her style often feels like multiple styles at the same time; “It’s about feeling good and bad all at once. Love and hate. It’s kinda an ADHD anthem,” she said on ‘Woo!’ in an interview with Vice.

She’s been navigating lockdown and the difficulties it has caused the music industry by making her own music videos at home with a green screen she bought off Amazon; and the result is surprisingly professional. “There’s gonna be a lot more, like, DIY creation in every sense”, she told the BBC, “I think right now [artists are] literally changing the standards [of music].”

She’s adaptable, she’s talented, and she’s wildly entertaining. Why isn’t she famous already?