{"id":27518,"date":"2025-11-14T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/?p=27518"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:36:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:36:52","slug":"new-music-revue-katy-and-the-null-sets-deliver-fantastic-debut-with-troublemaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2025\/11\/14\/new-music-revue-katy-and-the-null-sets-deliver-fantastic-debut-with-troublemaker\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Revue<\/em>: Katy and the Null Sets deliver fantastic debut with Troublemaker<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Troublemaker<\/i> is an album with a little something for everyone, with sprinkles of punk riffs, heavy tones, and unique instrumentation in a primarily indie-focused sound. Combining all of the best parts of girly-pop vocals, Mac Demarco bossanova inspiration, and some midwest emo lyricism, Katy and the Null Sets have come out swinging for the Portland, Oregon fences with the release of their debut album.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to place Troublemaker<\/i> into a genre. There\u2019s a fusion of extensive inspiration coming through their sound. Placing them into the indie genre would be a little bit diminishing of the unique qualities that they showcase throughout this album.<\/p>\n

The track \u201cPool\u201d starts out with a very staple indie-esque Alice Phoebe Lou sound but quickly morphs into a chorus carried by a heavy bass line accompanied with a jazz drum beat and amazing use of emo songwriting with complementing vocal effects, and then it\u2019s back to indie.<\/p>\n

The interlude \u201chhhhhh\u201d is an exceptional segue that brings a welcome change of pace and insight into vocalist Katy Ohsiek\u2019s self-deprecating thoughts and feelings. This song is, above all else, emo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The following track, \u201cChlorine,\u201d is a continuation of this pace and almost plays out as a resolution to the interlud, like Ohsiek is finally turning the corner of an inner struggle and finding self-love once again.<\/p>\n

I found myself enjoying the songs with the lower streaming numbers compared to the more popular tracks. I don\u2019t typically venture too closely to the indie genre and I found that the most popular songs are sitting comfortably within indie constraints, while the lesser-known songs are pushing the envelope more. I eventually began to enjoy even the songs I wouldn\u2019t typically listen to and found myself just listening to the album front to back, multiple times.\u201d<\/p>\n

To me, this is as close to a 5\/5 that you can get. Troublemaker<\/i> is a fantastic debut album from Katy and the Null Sets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Troublemaker is an album with a little something for everyone, with sprinkles of punk riffs, heavy tones, and unique instrumentation in a primarily indie-focused sound. Combining all of the best parts of girly-pop vocals, Mac Demarco bossanova inspiration, and some midwest emo lyricism, Katy and the Null Sets have come out swinging for the Portland, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,342],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-november-12-2025"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27521,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27518\/revisions\/27521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}