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Moore Kismet Releases “three little words” The New Single is A Vibrant Love Anthem for 2023

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2 years ago

February 14, 2023

“three little words” is really about falling in love with or still having love for someone you know you shouldn’t be in love with, but you just can’t help it. With Valentine’s Day coming up, I know that a lot of people (myself included) may be spending it alone. I really wanted to make something that anyone could listen and relate to you because love is not an easy thing to find.” – Moore Kismet

As we ready ourselves for Valentine’s Day next week, the now 18-year-old visionary Moore Kismet drops their latest single “three little words” via Thrive Music/Virgin Music – listen now HERE via your preferred DSP. The vibrant love anthem features Anna Dellaria and is filled to the brim with colorful synths, crisp percussive hits, and a captivating and diverse sonic soundscape. The new single follows last month’s release of Moore Kismet’s 2023 showcase, SEE EVERY COLOR – a 23-minute mix that has them sharing some of the best music they’ve ever made and all unreleased – listen HERE. It also follows last fall’s glitchy uplifting single “Forte” and a high-profile remix of “All By Myself” featuring Alok, Sigala, and Ellie Goulding.

Moore Kismet is coming off an epic 2022 that included the worldwide debut of their widely acclaimed studio album UNIVERSE. The year saw the Southern California born and raised, non-binary, and pansexual producer, songwriter, composer, DJ, and artist rack up more than 20 MILLION streams, play massive festivals including Coachella, Bonnaroo, EZoo and Tomorrowland and headline their first ever tour. They’ve garnered support from some of the biggest media platforms in the world, were included in Billboard’s “21 Under 21” for a 3rd year in a row, graced the cover of Pollstar – the leading trade publication for the concert and live music industry, and they were interviewed by NPR’s The Takeaway for the show’s ongoing series “Black.Queer.Rising” – “highlighting Black Queer people’s impact on American culture and society.” In addition, Kismet’s music was sought after for TV and games resulting in syncs for HBO Max’s series Legendary, Disney+’s The Rookie, and Epic Games’ Fortnite while they were tapped to create original music for Marvel’s Snap launch.

Having risen to the top of the US electronic music scene at the age of 17 — the now 18-year-old is poised for another big year. Their unique production style and stage presence has always set Kismet apart from the crowd. With each breathtaking release, Moore Kismet never fails to think ahead of what’s next in the electronic music space and beyond. Listen to “three little words (ft. Anna Dellaria)” today HERE and you can catch Moore Kismet live at the confirmed dates below including their first ever London Headline show on March 29th at The Camden Assembly!

Confirmed Moore Kismet Tour Dates Below:
Feb 25 @ The Complex (Marauda) in Salt Lake City, UT+
Mar 25 @ Ultra Music Festival @ Miami, FL#
Mar 29 @ The Camden Assembly @ London, UK (FIRST EU HEADLINE SHOW)^
Mar 31 @ Melkweg @ Amsterdam, NE+
Apr 23 @ Ubbi Dubbi Festival @ Ft. Worth, TX#
May 19 @ Hangout Festival @ Gulf Shores, AL#
May 27 @ The Gorge Amphitheatre (Illenium 2 Day Pass) in George, WA+
May 28 @ Lightning In A Bottle Festival in Bakersfield, CA#
^Headline Date #Festival +Support

Listen to “three little words” here!

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Mutual Shock’s Nervous Systems Showcases The Architecture of Alienation

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53 minutes ago

June 23, 2025

Philomena Marie

Seattle’s ever-shifting musical landscape has long given rise to voices that thrive in the gray areas—between genres, between moods, between identities. Dan Powers, the artist behind Mutual Shock, adds a new entry into that canon with Nervous Systems, a debut album that operates as both sonic exorcism and sociocultural diagnosis. At its core, the record is a meditation on life under late capitalism—a terrain where dread, detachment, and digital blur are not just thematic textures, but everyday conditions.

Emerging from the shadowy emotional terrain explored on his 2024 EP Stimulus Progression, Powers takes his vision further here—not louder, but deeper. Nervous Systems doesn’t seek to overwhelm. Instead, it seeps in. It’s less an album you “hear” and more one you slowly inhabit, like a strange new architecture that reveals its structure room by room. The choice of analog synths and skeletal drum programming isn’t retro affectation; it’s a design choice rooted in feeling, in tension, in deliberate control.

Mutual Shock sits in conversation with a lineage of outsider electronic music—Drab Majesty’s theatrical alienation, Molchat Doma’s post-Soviet nostalgia, the mechanized introspection of Nine Inch Nails—but avoids being pinned down by any one aesthetic. Powers is less interested in genre homage than he is in emotional architecture. Each sound feels like a corridor leading somewhere disorienting yet familiar, like a half-remembered dream of an office building at night.

Thematically, the album is deeply of this moment. It’s about burnout, yes, but not in the way we meme it. It’s about the deeper erosion beneath the hustle: the spiritual confusion, the existential rootlessness, the constant digital hum that keeps us from ever fully arriving in our own lives. Powers channels these anxieties not with histrionics, but with careful understatement—letting the atmosphere do the heavy lifting. It’s as much sociology as it is art.

What makes Nervous Systems so vital is that it doesn’t offer escape. Instead, it offers recognition. In a time when much of culture aims to distract, Mutual Shock chooses to reflect. Powers holds a mirror to the disquiet and lets it speak—not with panic, but with precision. The result is an album that lingers long after the final note, not as a soundtrack to alienation, but as a language for it.