Hemlocke Springs is North Carolina-born American musician Naomi Crayton Sloss, who broke out in 2022 when her single Girlfriend went viral on TikTok — written while she was in grad school at Dartmouth. Her '80s-tinted synth-pop debut Going... Going... Gone! (2024) is the place to start. Explore Hemlocke Springs vinyl, CDs, and EPs at Wax Trax Records.
Naomi Crayton Sloss, performing as Hemlocke Springs, was born in Lewisville, North Carolina on June 26, 1999. She launched her recording career while pursuing a Master's degree at Dartmouth College, with her 2022 single Girlfriend becoming a viral TikTok hit. She signed with AWAL for broader distribution. Her debut LP Going... Going... Gone! was released in 2024.
Hemlocke Springs's sound combines indie pop, hyperpop, alternative pop, and 1980s-influenced synth-pop with her distinctive vocal delivery and lo-fi to bedroom-pop production aesthetics drawing on 1980s pop reference points and contemporary indie pop traditions.
AWAL pressings of the Hemlocke Springs catalog have been issued in color variant editions.
Listeners new to Hemlocke Springs typically start with Going... Going... Gone! (2024).
