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Clarity Liao opens a new chapter with the emotionally charged “Love You More”

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3 months ago

May 13, 2026

Clarity Liao is entering a bold new phase. The San Francisco singer-songwriter’s latest single, “Love You More,” feels like a soft late-night confession wrapped in shimmering pop production and understated R&B influence — a track that captures the complicated beauty of loving someone in silence. Honest and emotionally immersive, it signals an artist growing more fearless in her vulnerability.

Having written songs since she was seven years old, Liao has already cultivated an impressive creative résumé. As the principal songwriter for Navillera, she helped steer the success of their breakout single “Too Young,” which won the 2024 Yamaha National Best Popular Music Award. She followed that achievement with “I Need You,” a composition that earned first place in the YMS 2025 National Composers competition. But while those milestones showcased her songwriting ability, “Love You More” feels like the clearest expression yet of who Clarity Liao is as an individual artist.

The single began life as a stripped-back piano ballad before evolving into something smoother and more rhythmically layered. Drawing inspiration from artists like SZA and BABYMONSTER, Liao introduces subtle bass-driven textures that give the track a modern, fluid feel without sacrificing intimacy. It’s polished but never detached, balancing softness with emotional depth.

What makes “Love You More” particularly compelling is its emotional precision. “Nothing really hurts / but it hurts that you don’t know me” lands like a whispered realization, encapsulating the ache of wanting to be fully understood by someone who remains just out of reach. Rather than dramatizing heartbreak, Liao focuses on the quieter emotional fractures — the ones that linger beneath the surface long after words go unsaid.

The track also offers a promising glimpse into her upcoming EP Dear…, an introspective collection exploring themes of longing, jealousy, rejection, and healing through the format of unsent emotional letters. Influenced by everyone from Bruno Mars and Adele to Olivia Rodrigo, Clarity Liao is shaping a sound that feels both emotionally grounded and sonically adventurous. “Love You More” confirms she’s an artist stepping confidently into her own voice — and one listeners will want to follow closely.

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Host Bodies’ track ‘On A Roll’ Gets a Psychedelic Reinvention from Soul Glitch

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1 day ago

August 21, 2026

Joni Jones

Ten years after Host Bodies first released the album Daily Apparatus, “On A Roll” has found a completely new groove.

For the Daily Apparatus: 10 Year Remixes project, multi-instrumentalist and producer Nicholas Hasty, under his Soul Glitch moniker, takes the original electronic-rock track and pulls it into deeper, more psychedelic territory.

The remix keeps the energy of Host Bodies intact while opening up the track with new beats, electronic textures and expressive saxophone solos. Electric guitar, bass and layered production give it a rich, genre-blurring sound that sits somewhere between indie electronic, jazztronica, soultronica and alternative dance.

There’s something particularly satisfying about hearing a decade-old track treated not as a relic, but as raw material. Soul Glitch reshapes “On A Roll” , finding new spaces within the original and bringing his own musical language into the mix.

The result is energetic, sensual, psychedelic and unapologetically expansive.

Ten years on, “On A Roll” proves that sometimes the best way to celebrate where a song came from is to find somewhere completely new for it to go.