It’s Homegrown Music Month, and every day, we’re featuring a different artist or act with North Texas ties. Listen to hear the day’s artist on KXT 91.7 FM and check back tomorrow to see who we shout out next.
Secrecies
From: Dallas
Sounds like: Lush, shoegaze-flavored rock unfurling like hazy dreams
Goes good with: Slowdive, DIIV, Lush
Origin story: Oak Cliff-based singer, songwriter and producer Shawn Magill fronts Secrecies — the band is rounded out by collaborators Leah Lane and Ivan Beltran — a project which plunges into the murky, atmospheric world of electronica-dappled rock. Secrecies released its first album in 2019, and followed up that acclaimed project with 2024’s Perfect Bite, a refinement and expansion of the band’s distinctive sound.
Quotable: “Music has always been my personal therapy when I find myself dealing with thoughts that are much bigger than I know what to do with. I turn to creating music to express those feelings and speak for me. So, Perfect Bite really just materialized out of the times it was born in — dealing with feelings of anxiety, depression, and fear, as well as great hope and faith in mankind.” — Shawn Magill to KXT in March 2024
Fun fact: Magill is also a classically trained pianist.
Why we picked them: Arresting, melodic indie pop that unfolds like a mid-1980s daydream
Where to hear: Stream Secrecies on all major digital music platforms
Band website
![Last December, Fort Worth’s @abrahamalexander performed his final show of the year at Dallas’ Majestic Theatre. Before the show, KXT asked him what it meant to headline the Majestic Theatre. Here’s what he said:
“I went to a show [there] in April of 2018. And I said to myself, one day I would get to play this venue. To have experienced what I have, in the last five years, and to have this particular year that I just went through, and at the end of that to play this show — like, I could cry, bro — it shows you that it’s a journey, and not a destination. So this is seriously a thank you show, and a way for me to sort of … say thank you, this is who I am, this is my artistry, this is what I look like, this is what my vision is. … I can’t wait to be in that room with people that love me … it’s going to be a really, really beautiful night.”
You can watch his performance Friday, October 18 on KERA TV (Chanel 13) at 10:30 p.m.](https://kxt.org/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)