Despite only being 16-years-old, Toronto based singer-songwriter Ren has already begun to turn heads within the music industry after an exceptional response to her debut ‘Waves’ earlier this year. The follow-up, ‘Mind Games’, is an equally bouncy pop tune that allows her strong vocal performance to sit above the crisp production and detailed, rhythmic soundscape of producer Jeff Hazin. In discussion of this release, Ren says “I’ve always been fascinated by movies from directors like Guillermo Del Toro, and Tim Burton I like the movies made for kids, that aren’t just fairy-tales, they introduce a new emotion to the genre of “kids movies” that I think is so interesting and intriguing.” Be sure to check this one out. -Dan Peeke