Touching Ice – “Heart like a dog”
There is no clean way to describe what Touching Ice sounds like, and I think that’s the whole point. The LA trio started as two friends messing around with demos that blurred the line between industrial electronics and indie rock, and then Abigail Reese showed up and started layering poetry over everything. That’s when the project stopped being an experiment and became a band.
“Heart like a dog” is the track that made me stop scrolling. The name comes from a Marty McConnell poem, and you can feel that literary DNA in the way the song moves. It’s built on distorted guitar textures and chopped vocal affirmations that shouldn’t work together but absolutely do. The production is crisp in a way that feels obsessive. Dominic Colangelo, who handles programming and synthesis, apparently spent countless hours reading equipment manuals instead of Googling answers because the internet literally didn’t have what he needed. That kind of dedication shows up in the mix. Every layer sounds intentional.
What gets me is the tension. The track sits in this space between tenderness and chaos that most electronic acts don’t even attempt. Abigail’s vocals feel whispered and urgent at the same time. The whole thing sounds like a love letter written during a panic attack, and I mean that as the highest compliment I can give.
Touching Ice has about 20,000 monthly listeners right now. They’ve opened for Mandy Indiana, Pixel Grip, and Provoker. They just came off a North American tour with Cowgirl Clue. The resume is building fast, and this song deserves to be the one that catches people off guard when the algorithm finally figures out what to do with them.
Go listen. Seriously