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Mac Wetha has a couple of tricks up his sleeve. He’s known for crafting warm hip-hop beats with the NiNE8 collective, which led to him producing Burden, the very good opening track on Aminé​’s 2020 album Limbo. Then there’s the 24-year-old rocking out as an indie frontman. As the baggy jeans indicate, there’s a bit of a ​’90s/​early ​’00s nostalgia thing going on (he pulled off a cover of Weezer’s classic Say It Ain’t So during recent support slots for Dirty Hit labelmate Beabadoobee). But thanks to Wetha’s multi-genre approach and his prestige behind the boards, there are fizzy flourishes in the production that give his emotive anthems a fresh feel. It all bodes very well for a debut album, which we hope he drops this year. 

Mac Wetha has a couple of tricks up his sleeve. He’s known for crafting warm hip-hop beats with the NiNE8 collective, which led to him producing Burden, the very good opening track on Aminé​’s 2020 album Limbo. Then there’s the 24-year-old rocking out as an indie frontman. As the baggy jeans indicate, there’s a bit of a ​’90s/​early ​’00s nostalgia thing going on (he pulled off a cover of Weezer’s classic Say It Ain’t So during recent support slots for Dirty Hit labelmate Beabadoobee). But thanks to Wetha’s multi-genre approach and his prestige behind the boards, there are fizzy flourishes in the production that give his emotive anthems a fresh feel. It all bodes very well for a debut album, which we hope he drops this year. 

Mac Wetha has a couple of tricks up his sleeve. He’s known for crafting warm hip-hop beats with the NiNE8 collective, which led to him producing Burden, the very good opening track on Aminé​’s 2020 album Limbo. Then there’s the 24-year-old rocking out as an indie frontman. As the baggy jeans indicate, there’s a bit of a ​’90s/​early ​’00s nostalgia thing going on (he pulled off a cover of Weezer’s classic Say It Ain’t So during recent support slots for Dirty Hit labelmate Beabadoobee). But thanks to Wetha’s multi-genre approach and his prestige behind the boards, there are fizzy flourishes in the production that give his emotive anthems a fresh feel. It all bodes very well for a debut album, which we hope he drops this year. 

Mac Wetha has a couple of tricks up his sleeve. He’s known for crafting warm hip-hop beats with the NiNE8 collective, which led to him producing Burden, the very good opening track on Aminé​’s 2020 album Limbo. Then there’s the 24-year-old rocking out as an indie frontman. As the baggy jeans indicate, there’s a bit of a ​’90s/​early ​’00s nostalgia thing going on (he pulled off a cover of Weezer’s classic Say It Ain’t So during recent support slots for Dirty Hit labelmate Beabadoobee). But thanks to Wetha’s multi-genre approach and his prestige behind the boards, there are fizzy flourishes in the production that give his emotive anthems a fresh feel. It all bodes very well for a debut album, which we hope he drops this year. 

When asked about what we can expect in 2022, THE BLOSSOM doesn’t skip a beat: “I move at full speed ahead. I’ve got another full project on the way really soon. It’s bundled up, tangled up and spewed up ENERGY. I love playing live and sinking my teeth into touring and spilling more of my guts whenever I can. I’ll also still be a sloppy kiss making out with all my inner tears and fears then turning them into more songs. It’s all a never ending trash-fire in my head, so I keep throwing whatever I can into the flames. Also probably taking a lot of planes, trains and automobiles.”—Nico Tripodi

“I want to accomplish a few things in 2022 such as financial freedom and a better understanding of finance and business literacy amongst many other creative endeavors,” Terry explains in an email. “I feel good about my new music, it’s my life and slowly becoming ‘my sound.’ As for my headspace, it’s in its regular space, (my head). I have a love-hate relationship with humans and my mind is quite the dystopia so my actions are forever a bit affected by that. But in all honesty, I just want to get my music out to the world. I have it ready to go. In conclusion, I want my supporters to know that I miss getting music to them and that I’m also working on things outside of music at the moment. Foremost, it’ll be for us, then it’ll be for the world.”

Of every artist on this list, we probably know the least about what Terry Presume has in store for 2022, what sound he’ll tap into next, or how he’ll choose to share it with the world. Maybe it’s better that way.—Jacob Moore