Empty Space

JESUS THE DINOSAUR – Indie Folk Friends Deliver Candid And Frank Debut Album With ‘NOTHING TO THE BRANCHES’

Posted on by JL

26 May 2026


Credit J Kimball

Band: JESUS THE DINOSAUR
Who: Boston-based indie folk team.

Debut Album: NOTHING TO THE BRANCHES

Press info: “As most of us go through life’s formative stages, there are often
two lanes of maturity and fulfillment that casually intertwine, with each helping
inform and propel the other.

One is establishing who we are as a person, while discovering a sense of identity
and comfort as our true selves; and the other is finding our community along the
way, seeking refuge and safety in those that exist, and persist, closest to us.

Those lanes converge and come to the forefront of Jesus The Dinosaur’s introspective
debut album, Nothing To The Branches, a record that acts as a portal into a different
kind of emotive headspace.”

Tommy Ng (frontman) “The statement that we are making with this album is that we’re here! The songs cover a range of things from complex relationship dynamics to gender identity to anxiety attacks. But at our core, the music we make is really more about being involved in an intimate collaborative creation process together and finding our own expressions within it.”

“Our chemistry is everything! We’ve been friends for a long time. They are my closest friends.
It allows for the process of music writing to be very intimate and vulnerable and expansive. There’s space for everyone to have their expressions, and we all want to work together and
feel seen.”

TUTV: On this debut, the band explore gender identity, relationship dynamics, anxiety,
and escapism. Musically, they embed these life-important issues in gentle, charming, candid and acoustic-euphonious reveries. Luring indie folk that triggers self-analysing daydreaming.

The ruminative balladry of Bon Iver and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy comes to mind. Nothing To The Branches embraces a similar heart-and-soul stirring melancholia, wrapped in introvertive reveries such as Lifetime, Not Yr Boy, I Miss My Friend and fervent tunes (Agender, Empty Space, Sweet Nothing and Looking For A Way Out). Great vocals too from Ng and guitarist Hannah Foxman on Can’t Say.

I’m sure many young people out there can relate to the covered
topics on this brave and frank debut. Kudos to Jesus The Dinosaur.

SINGLE

STREAM/BUY ALBUM


.
Instagram – Linktree

JESUS THE DINOSAUR – Boston’s Folk Pop Indies Make You Dream With New Piece ‘EMPTY SPACE’

Posted on by JL

Daily electricity to load your batteries

17 April 2026


📸 Miryam Weiss and J Kimball

Band: JESUS THE DINOSAUR (great name)
Who: Folk-rock indies from Boston, MA.

Track:
Piece from their upcoming debut LP, titled
‘Nothing To The Branches’, out on May 15th.

It showcases the band’s lush, emphatic sound that somehow
feels both intimately personal and richly expansive,

Tommy Ng (Vocals, acoustic guitar) “The lyrics are about spending time alone, and doing
your own thing. This is something I’ve always had to do to maintain my capacity for dealing
with the world, and to manage being overstimulated by it.

When I was a kid, this desire manifested itself as a fantasy about a special place that was somehow completely separate from the world, where time didn’t exist, and that only I could access, which I found incredibly soothing to think about.”


Single artwork by Hannah Foxman

TUTV: Empty Space is a nostalgic folk-pop tune. Infectious, uplifting, invigorating.
The kind of earworms that put a smile on your face, forgetting the daily manic
rat race around you.

The song’s sentiments make me think of Oasis‘ classic Live Forever, which also expresses the romantic sentiment of locking out the outside world (in this case, with your best friend) and doing whatever you want, without your entourage having any clue. Quite a universal fantasy (I guess).

LYRICS

“I wanna remember walking down the street at night in the summertime
Headphones on, streetlights casting beams through the humidity
No one at all around me

This could be,
This could be infinity


When I was young I wondered what I’d do with three wishes
I thought it fair; one for myself and two for everybody else
I never could decide on just two wishes for the world
And everytime I tried I was afraid it wouldn’t change the world

But as for me, I’d wish for an empty space
Outside of time
Endlessly open wide
That I could always go to to ease my mind
That I could always go to to ease my mind
This could be infinity
This could be infinity”

TUTV: Empty Space is an enchanting folk pop tune. Infectious, uplifting, invigorating.

STREAM/BUY


.
Instagram – Linktree

THE Y AXES Get Caught In The Moment On Stimulating Single ‘EMPTY SPACE’…

Posted on by JL

Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…

Band: THE Y AXES

Who: A hip San francisco quartet claiming “we are not the future of pop music,
we are pop music from the future.”

Pick: EMPTY SPACE

New single from upcoming album ‘No Waves‘. Frontwoman Alexi Rose Belchere says that: “the story of the song is a struggle with internal voids and Empty Spaces. The narrative of the song is constantly flirting with the idea of getting caught up in the moment — something like a summer romance — to escape these internal struggles, but self-doubt and overthinking always catches up and sucks you in.”

Score: Despite the reflective doubts and concerns about living in the moment ‘Empty Space‘ equally celebrates the enjoyment of emotional intensity of letting things just
happen now and then. Well, that’s how I personally experience the song’s stimulating spirit. I’m sure you’ll be fueled too by its propelling drive and buoyant flow.

It’s a buzzing crackerjack that gets under your skin from the very start, reminding me
of Blondie‘s early get-up-and-go adrenalin before they became a disco band. Press the button and remember what Bob Dylan once sang “Don’t think twice, it’s all right‘…

THE Y AXES: Website – Facebook –  Twitter


EMPTY SPACE now available via Bandcamp and iTunes