ryan malcs

It's not every day that you stumble across a song of genuine hit quality before it's even registered a few thousand streams. There are a few categories that come to mind. There are tracks sitting in the four-digit range that are good, but whose relative anonymity is probably warranted. Then there are others, also in that range -- around 5k streams or so -- that simply haven't been discovered yet but are almost certain to blow up. Kind of like Fcukers when Jason and I first heard them, to give a more recent example. Most of the time, though, you find solid tracks already sitting somewhere between 10k and 100k+ listens. So why lay all this out? Because "stickman" doesn't seem to have any registered plays on Spotify yet. And beyond that, it's of the highest quality, with serious potential. It's the kind of discovery you only make when you wander deep into the indie music maze. I found this one buried in a playlist by Alice Costelloe, who popped up on my radar at The Great Escape -- a grassroots music conference and festival held annually in Brighton. ryan malcs is a London based musician who is also a producer, songwriter, and occassional keys player for the massive Wolf Alice . I'm not surprised the song is this good and has had so little promotion. I would consider that the Digital Age's version of humility. I'm genuinely revved up to dig in to his EP, go slowly.