The track was produced by apob, who has credits with Suki Waterhouse, Dora Jar, and Skullcrusher. That’s a pretty stacked resume for someone to be working with at 16, and the production reflects it. “1 plus 1” is built on analogue synths and ambient textures with this chiming percussion that sounds like wind chimes in a room where nobody opened the window. It’s minimal in a way that takes confidence. There’s no wall of sound to hide behind. Every element is exposed.
And then there’s her voice. Constance describes her sound as “shiny,” which is honestly the most accurate self-assessment I’ve heard from any artist in a while. Her vocals have this featherlight quality that floats above the instrumental without ever feeling disconnected from it. On “1 plus 1” she sings about physical sensation as emotional metaphor, listing off body reactions like a doctor reading symptoms. My chest hurts, my lungs breathe, my heart pounds, my toes bleed. It reads like anxiety translated into poetry, which is pretty much exactly what it is.
What’s interesting about her trajectory so far is who’s paying attention. Dora Jar, 2hollis, The Hellp, Baby Sosa, Suki Waterhouse. These are artists who don’t just casually co-sign people. When multiple acts across different corners of indie and experimental music all independently start pointing at the same person, that usually means something. She also performed at And Always Forever, which is the LA festival that’s basically become a proving ground for the next wave of underground artists (Touching Ice, who we covered at #5, also played it).
Constance is based in LA and has been releasing music through 2025 and into 2026 with a slow, deliberate rollout. No rush. No flooding Spotify with 30 loosies. Just a few songs at a time, each one produced carefully. At 12,000 monthly listeners, she is genuinely at the ground floor in a way that most people reading this have probably never experienced with an artist who already sounds this polished.
I’ll say it plainly: if you told me this song was on a Dora Jar record or a Skullcrusher project, I wouldn’t blink. The fact that it’s coming from a high schooler in LA with 12K listeners is the kind of thing that makes this whole blog worth running.