Ben Bailey's solo project is Jacob Asher. He is the keyboardist and vocalist in Joywave. In 2020 he put out Joshua Tree, then Medusa, and kept writing from Rochester while the band was off the road.

Atlas: What is Jacob Asher that Joywave isn't?

Jacob Asher: A place to start something without waiting for a tour cycle. Joshua Tree was the first single. It is a new baby. I wanted a lane that was just mine.

Atlas: Why now?

Jacob Asher: The quarantine year was a lot of basement time. I already had the keys and the voice. The songs showed up when there was nowhere else to put them.

Source: Atlas Artist Group, May 2020. Later singles include Trader Joe's (2024), January (2025), and the EP SHOTGUN/MASI/MYSELF/COUCH (2026).

SPENCER. grew up in Rochester, NY. He learned trumpet and piano young and spent a summer in the jazz program at Eastman. The early singles — Want U Back, Automatic, To Be You — came out of a parents' basement.

Are U Down? arrived on 4AD in 2021. He recorded it late at night in a Bed-Stuy apartment, playing piano, guitar, bass, drums, and trumpet, and producing it himself.

The record sits next to Clairo, Snail Mail, Claud. Consequence called him a rising star worth watching. The songs on LISTEN are from that album: U Around?, MyLuv, Lonely As I Ever Was.

Source: 4AD artist notes for Are U Down?

YNOUGH's I Got Nothing Going On landed April 20, 2020. Three weeks later a Jacob Asher Car Test Ext. Version followed.

That is the paper trail. Alternative, US, a short run of singles: Reservations, Doing Laps, The Right Amount, GOOD NAME NEW DELIGHT, oOoOo Reload with Divinity School.

We are not going to invent a studio story. The records are on Spotify. The collab is on the sleeve.

rikysusu has two singles on the public stores: Plastic Girl (April 17, 2026) and SUSU (August 19, 2026). Hip-hop. Label credit on Plastic Girl is susu.

There is not a long interview on file. The songs are two and a half minutes and under. We put them on LISTEN because they are on Spotify and they are new.