Six voices making records about building up, looking up, and getting through. Every song ends on its feet.
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Our story

We started the morning after.

The first song was After the Storm. June wrote it on a bedroom floor the morning after the worst night of her life, and she finished it looking up. That is the whole idea, and everything the collective has made since comes from it. You can start anywhere. You start where you are, you sing it to one person, and you do not stop until you are standing.

We are six voices who believe the same thing about a song: that it should leave you better than it found you. Not by pretending the hard part did not happen, but by walking through it with you and coming out the other side with the sun up. Ballads about getting back up. A duet that turns into a crowd. Worship that sounds like the radio. Pop that happens at 2 a.m. Rap with a chorus you can sing.

Nobody on this roster is here because life was easy. We are here because it was not, and because somewhere in the middle of it somebody looked up. These records are for the person who is in the middle of it right now.

After the StormThe first record · June Hollis
Building up.

Every song is a climb. We write about the first apartment, the second shift, the apology that finally got said. Small, real steps, one after another.

Looking up.

Hope is a direction, not a mood. Our songs face forward and face upward, and they are honest about how far down they started.

Overcoming.

We do not write about the storm. We write about the morning after it, and the person standing in the doorway, still here.

Members

Six voices.
June Hollis
Singer-songwriter

June Hollis

The first voice.

June grew up in a house where the radio was always on and nobody talked about anything hard. She learned to sing the way some people learn to pray: alone, quietly, and only when it mattered. The collective's first record, After the Storm, is hers. She wrote it on a bedroom floor the morning after the worst night of her life and finished it looking up. She still writes that way. Every June song starts somewhere low and ends in the present tense, on her feet.

Sounds like
A warm, close voice that whispers in the verses and opens up when the chorus arrives.
Sings about
Getting back up. Love that shows up on an ordinary Tuesday. The strength in knowing what you had to lose.
Debut album
Morning Is a Verb · 2027
4 songs out
Beau Lawson
Country soul

Beau Lawson

A county road with a voice.

Beau drove a delivery route for nine years before anyone heard him sing, and it shows. He writes like a man who has seen every porch light in three counties and remembers which ones stayed on. There is no sermon in a Beau Lawson song, only the pawn-shop ring, the court-date mail, the stranger who held the door. He found the collective the way most of his characters find grace: a long way off, and not expecting to be seen.

Sounds like
A warm, slightly raspy tenor. Conversational in the verses, wide open on the chorus.
Sings about
Second chances without a lecture. The kindness of strangers. Coming home.
Debut album
Pawn-Shop Rings · 2027
2 songs out
June & Beau
The duo

June & Beau

Two voices, one wide sky.

They met in a studio hallway with one song between them and no plan. She sang the first verse before he had put his guitar case down; he answered with his own; by the last chorus there were more voices in the room than people. That is still what a June & Beau record feels like: a conversation that turns into a congregation. They sing about devotion, about distance, about choosing each other again on a day that is not an anniversary.

Sounds like
Her warmth and his rasp, trading lines until they are singing the same one.
Sings about
Devotion. Long distance. The ordinary day you pick each other again.
Debut album
I'd Find You Anywhere · 2027
2 songs out
The Called
Modern worship

The Called

Sunday morning that sounds like Friday night.

The Called is less a band than a room: a woman and a man up front, and behind them, by the last chorus, everyone else. Their songs are testimonies. They begin at the lowest point and are found by the chorus. The name comes from their first anthem and from the thing it describes, being called out of the dark by name. They sound like the radio on purpose, because the people they are singing to are in their cars.

Sounds like
Two warm lead voices and a wall of people behind them when it counts.
Sings about
Being found where you fell. Mercy that arrives with the morning.
Debut album
Called By Name · 2027
3 songs out
Kit Mercer
Pop

Kit Mercer

Between midnight and the morning reply.

Kit is twenty-four and writes about the hours nobody else is awake for: the text you should not have sent, the group chat that went quiet, the first apartment with a mattress on the floor and a key that is only yours. She talks her way through the verses and shouts the chorus like she is in a car with the windows down. Underneath the bright sound she is a June Hollis fan who wanted the same climb at twice the speed.

Sounds like
Bright and close, half spoken, then a chorus you can shout.
Sings about
First times happening right now. The voice in your head, and being louder than it.
Debut album
Read at 2:14 · 2027
3 songs out
Dez Harlow
Melodic rap

Dez Harlow

The second address.

Dez raps the way Beau writes: one thing you can hold in your hand in every verse, and no lecture. His songs are about the second shift, the apology still owed, the address you moved to when the first one stopped being safe. He half-sings his verses over a piano and a heavy low end, and every chorus is sung by someone else in the collective, so a Dez Harlow record always has more than one person in it. That is the point.

Sounds like
Half sung, half rapped, with a sung chorus from a friend.
Sings about
Work that is really about the self. Identity and respect. Not being done yet.
Debut album
Second Address · 2027
3 songs out

Albums

The first season.

One first record and six debut albums. Open a tracklist: the songs that are already out play right here, the rest are on the way.

After the StormJune Hollis · The first record · 2026
Written on a bedroom floor, finished looking up. The song the collective is built on.
Tracklist
  1. 1After the Storm3:30
1 of 1 out
Morning Is a VerbJune Hollis · Album · 2027
Ten songs about the day after the worst day.
Tracklist
  1. 1Say It Slow3:28
  2. 2The Best Is Coming3:30
  3. 3Breathing In
  4. 4Morning Is a Verb
  5. 5Bending
  6. 6Turning the Pages
  7. 7Written in the Stars3:30
  8. 8Stronger Than Before
  9. 9Every Tear
  10. 10After the Storm (reprise)
3 of 10 out
Pawn-Shop RingsBeau Lawson · Album · 2027
From the bottom of the county to the top of the morning.
Tracklist
  1. 1Hold the Door
  2. 2Crawl Out the Dark3:30
  3. 3Still Call You Home
  4. 4Pawn-Shop Rings
  5. 5Borrowed Car (with Kit Mercer)
  6. 6Somebody Like You4:00
  7. 7Court-Date Mail
  8. 8Porch Light
  9. 9Not the Man I Used to Be
  10. 10Long Way Off
2 of 10 out
I'd Find You AnywhereJune & Beau · Album · 2027
A conversation that turns into a congregation.
Tracklist
  1. 1I'd Find You Anywhere3:30
  2. 2I Knew It Was You3:48
  3. 3Somebody's Someone
  4. 4I Picked You
  5. 5Same Sky
  6. 6Ordinary Tuesday
  7. 7A Thousand Doors
  8. 8Through the Fire, Through the Years
  9. 9Where the Map Ran Out
  10. 10Say My Name
2 of 10 out
Called By NameThe Called · Album · 2027
A Sunday-morning record that sounds like Friday-night radio.
Tracklist
  1. 1Called By Name3:48
  2. 2Mercy in the Morning
  3. 3Here In Your Presence3:30
  4. 4Lower Than Low
  5. 5Back Seat Church (with Dez Harlow)
  6. 6Jesus Lifts You Up4:00
  7. 7The Stone and Mine
  8. 8Found Where I Fell
  9. 9Lift Her Up
  10. 10Everyone Else
3 of 10 out
Read at 2:14Kit Mercer · Album · 2027
Ten songs that happen between midnight and the morning reply.
Tracklist
  1. 1Read at 2:142:33
  2. 2First Apartment2:45
  3. 3Louder Than the Lie
  4. 4Dancing in the Kitchen
  5. 5Three Dots
  6. 6Group Chat Went Quiet
  7. 7Windows Down3:03
  8. 8Borrowed Car (with Beau Lawson)
  9. 9Unsent
  10. 10Morning Reply
3 of 10 out
Second AddressDez Harlow · Album · 2027
Eleven tracks, four friends on the choruses.
Tracklist
  1. 1Second Address2:47
  2. 2Not Done Yet2:48
  3. 3Back Seat Church (with The Called)
  4. 4Say My Name Right (with June Hollis)
  5. 5Second Shift
  6. 6The Apology
  7. 7Seatbelt Mark
  8. 8Stairwell
  9. 9One Colour Left
  10. 10Keys on the Counter2:48
  11. 11Not Done Yet (reprise)2:48
3 of 11 out

Listen

Out now.

Seventeen songs from the first season, all of them here. Start anywhere.

Not Done YetDez Harlow with June Hollis · lyric video

Dez's first single, with June on the chorus. From the album Second Address.

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