Michael Bozzo and Courtney Leo, the multi-instrumentalist producer and vocalist behind the project, grew up in Queens making music together since childhood, spending their teenage years in rooms that no longer exist, CBGB's, Roseland Ballroom, Irving Plaza, absorbing whatever the New York underground was doing in real time. That history isn't nostalgia dressed up as branding. It's the actual foundation their new EP, "The Wires Out," is built on.
The EP leans further into pop territory than the duo's past work without sacrificing the tension that defines them. Across its tracks, THROES NYC circles the space where connection and disconnection sit uncomfortably close together, romance that isn't quite settled, attraction that hasn't decided if it's safe. "The Wires Out" carries that idea even in its title: the signal is imperfect, something is crossed, and somehow that's exactly where the actual connection happens.
Two songs anchor the release, and they approach intimacy from opposite directions. "Something Chemical" sits in the darker, more restless register of attraction, the kind that feels less like choice and more like chemistry taking over. "Always, Baby" moves in the other direction, opening into something softer and more openly romantic, proof that the same project can hold both tension and tenderness without either canceling the other out.
Bozzo and Leo describe their sound as altriphop, a genre they built themselves out of alt-pop, trip-hop, and electronic production, filtered through a distinctly New York sensibility. Analog warmth sits next to cinematic texture, and Leo's vocals carry real emotional weight without ever tipping into melodrama. Nothing on "The Wires Out" sits still long enough to be neatly filed into a single category, which seems to be exactly the point.
What makes THROES NYC worth paying attention to isn't just the sound; it's the honesty underneath it. Most music aims for clean connection, a clear signal, an easy resolution. "The Wires Out" argues the opposite: that real intimacy is rarely tidy, and that the static, the crossed wires, the imperfect signal, might actually be where people find each other in the first place. It's a familiar feeling made unfamiliar again, and for two artists who grew up inside New York's messiest, most alive music scenes, that refusal to smooth things over feels less like an aesthetic choice and more like an inherited instinct.
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