Jack Manley / Setting Sun / Kadir Yucel

Jack Manley is a new, eponymous solo project of the Kingston-based singer/songwriter, whose former projects include Cosmonaut, The Jennifer Shop and Spires. Written entirely by Manley, his forthcoming EP, Unmeasurable Terms, chronicles his journey towards sobriety and is due out May 10. It confronts difficult truths, failures, regrets and love, while bringing some of the artist’s darkest moments into light. Part Babyshambles, part classically-influenced guitar voicing, his songs are a clash of high and low-brow. His style honors atmospheric texture while pursuing harsher, angular sounds.

Setting Sun: catchy choruses alternate with bedroom-symphonic mood pieces, baroque waltzes, and downhill, propulsive rockers, all decorated by a mixture of experimental synth and moody string orchestrations.

Kadir Yucel is a progressive electronic and progressive rock musician. Born in Istanbul, Turkey and moved to New York on 1998.

His music is heavily influenced by his beginnings with percussion instruments and drums, steeped in the complex rhythms of his childhood surroundings in Istanbul. Kadir takes this rhythmic drive and translates it into exotic synthesizer and guitar riffs, blended together in an otherworldly dream music.