are kind of known as the most mainstream garage tunes from the early 2000s and mid-2000s. The early garage tracks I remember were "Rewind" by Craig David, "Baby Cakes" by 3 Of A Kind, and "Flowers" by Sweet Female Attitude. I don't know about where you guys are in the U.S., but over here it's not uncommon to see a garage song or even a jungle and drum and bass track on the mainstream music channels. She played a lot of stuff in the car and at the time I would go home and put on a music channel. PinkPantheress: I think one person to mention would be my mom. Mano Sundaresan: What were the first garage songs you really loved? This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. The new songs on the back end have fuller arrangements, benefiting from the studio and collaborators, but still feel like hazy dreams from a bygone era. Half of the tape will be familiar to fans. They're gonna listen to that and think, what's this? and then maybe discover artists or more tracks like it."Ĭlocking in at just under 19 minutes her debut mixtape to hell with it, out on Parlophone Records, serves more as a soft launch than a grand statement. "I think it only helps the scene, man, 'cause it's gonna shed light on the scene for people who are not generally into garage. I swear to god I think she's sick," says garage luminary DJ Q. After garage saw its most popular years in the '90s and early 2000s, it went back underground, but is now having a small resurgence with artists like Bklava and AJ Tracey. She also has plenty of support from the U.K. She writes songs that submit to the norms of the attention economy - keep it short, keep it hooky - but this frame serves her music perfectly. Another song "Break It Off" samples the drum and bass classic "Circles" by Adam F. Her catchy breakout hit "Pain" samples the 2000 garage hit "Flowers" by Sweet Female Attitude and Sunship. garage samples will start flying through your ears. Press play on almost any of her TikTok viral songs, and iconic U.K. Her songs, which place her vocals on garage and drum and bass inflected beats, similarly toe a line between the familiar and mysterious. The 20-year-old from southeast England laughs through her phase of making K-Pop fan edits, name-drops formative artists with the abandon of someone who religiously makes Topsters, and describes the song "All My Friends Know" on her new mixtape as a "Drake type beat." The life of the internet's buzziest new artist has been shrouded in mystery, but in conversation she's cheeky and approachable. PinkPantheress agreed to an interview, but kept her camera off and chose not to share her name.