Mox

Mox makes music for love, love lost, and broken hearts. For every smile from a stranger on the street. For unsent letters full of secrets too mundane to keep.



Started in 2020 by a then 16 year old girl with a deep fascination for songwriting and a vague understanding of GarageBand, Mox has always put earnestness at the top of her priority list. In 2023, she released her debut full length Heart, a lofi and emotionally raw project that showed an artist just beginning to find her voice, but whether she’s weaving her life into a melody or crafting a chord progression from a story she can’t get out of her head, it seems with every song she’s determined to establish herself as a powerhouse in her scene and beyond.



Deeply inspired by her hometown of Merced and the Central Valley of California, Mox’s music shows the quaint complexity of growing up in a small town with an itching urge to create. When she needs to create, it’s often the people and connections around her that set a spark. In a chat over coffee, or a small interaction with a new face, Mox finds the stories and feelings that fuel her music, revealing a depth in Merced that a lot of people ignore.



From a first glance, Mox fits perfectly well into the indie pop umbrella, but the more you listen, the harder it feels to pin down. Lyrically, Mox is a storyteller through and through. An obvious lover of Elliott Smith and Sylvia Plath, each line walks you further down the path of ambiguity. Always toeing the line between autobiographical and fiction, between the literal and the metaphorical. But always heavy. It’s almost like she’s using her music as a way to lift something off her chest and onto you.



Sonically, Mox’s second full length Spirits is a step forward in every direction. Still recorded DIY in her bedroom, it somehow sounds both more expansive and more intimate. A proud student of the Sparklehorse and Alex G school of home recording, Mox uses Spirits to lean into her love of bluegrass, dreamy soundscapes, good ol’ guitar music, and a kind of warm weirdness that makes every listen feel like finding something unexpected in the corner of the room.