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A week before NIVA's 2024 Live List drops, we're taking a look at what our 10 favorite 2023 finalists have been up to lately.

On "Loss," Polyglam mine the dynamics of love and embrace the profundity of absence through stringy, delicate dream pop.

Denver eight-piece band Clementine Was Right have released "There Are No More Almond Trees," a bootgaze emo track that scratches every itch.

Strawberry Guy's "Mrs. Magic (Strings Version)" is a pensive, solemn upgrade to his breakout, home-recorded viral single from 2019.

Free Range's "The Moon" is intimate and spiritual, as they try to find closure with a lost loved one and move on from heartache for good.

Marci's "Stop" is one of those tracks that is so low-key hypnotizing that, once you realize you're obsessed with it, you've already had the song on repeat for an hour.

"Alibi" is a gut-wrenching, worn-in and worn-out portrait of memory, addiction, loss and distance between kin from Hurray for the Riff Raff.

The new single from Sudanese-American artist Sinkane could have been written any time in the past three centuries.

"My Room" arrives as one of Ty Segall's best songs, sticking out for its streamlined arrangements and intoxicatingly sublime pacing.

UK post-everything group Mount Kimbie drops their fresh, fuzzy shoegaze-adjacent tune "Dumb Guitar." Listen here.