spookyguava Is Turning Bedroom Beats Into a Rallying Cry

Toronto's spookyguava didn't set out to build a movement. He started the way a lot of alternative artists do: bouncing between bands and teaching himself production in early high school, right as the world shut down during Covid. That isolation became a workshop. He spent the time recording himself, refining songs in private, and by the summer after graduation he was finally playing them out loud, taking original material to shows for the first time. That path from bedroom experimentation to live stages shapes how he talks about his music now. He cites Ken Carson, Twenty One Pilots, Green Day, and Uzi as touchstones, but when asked about his biggest inspiration, he points somewhere bigger than any single artist: the world itself. As he describes it, the old world is dying while a new one struggles to be born, and his generation is stuck being told nothing ever changes. For him, the response isn't resignation, it's music as a kind of frequency, something meant to connect people, comfort the lost, and give the abandoned somewhere to belong. That mission is the throughline of his upcoming project, a follow-up EP to his previous release, Wish You Were Here Pt. 1. He's not revealing much about the specifics yet, but the intent behind it lines up with everything he's said before, that he wants listeners walking away with a simple charge: don't let the world turn you into something you're not. Take pride in who you are and what you believe in. For an artist still early in his career, spookyguava is already thinking in terms of community rather than just output, using alternative music's rawness to say something to a generation that feels unheard. Atlanta listeners just getting introduced to him now are catching him at the beginning of that arc.