“LOVE SCHOOL”
PISHA
House of Feelings Records, the NYC-based record label that put out a string of groundbreaking singles last year, returns today with their first single and video of 2026, Pisha’s “Love School.”
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Pisha is a pop star on-the-verge. Just as a young Madonna began sharpening her axe in the dance clubs of the late ’80s downtown NYC scene before her fully realized emergence, Pisha has begun breaking through the new indie sleaze set with her bonafide streaming hit, last year’s “Who You Really Are.”
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Pisha is Madeline Kassen, a music school head from Oklahoma, who inhabits her quirky and soulful presence with the grace of a classic Hollywood screen icon combined with the urgency of a disco crusader. Her sound is a mix of DFA beats and icy claps with scuttering techno spurts underneath her trademark smooth synth frosting. Atop sit the truest of vocals, the kind delivered by a wise friend. She whispers with the sultriness of Golfrapp; she casts spells like Stevie Nicks. Pisha sings of lessons learned and more trouble on the horizon, but always hopefully, always riding the current.
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“Love School” is both of the past and the future, at once an ode to ’60s bubblegum/Jetsons pop as well as Prodigy’s insistent ’90s nervy dancefloor routines, mixed with the disco nods and in-jokes of the classic James Murphy/Tim Goldsworthy remixes of the aughts.
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It comes with a sumptuous late 60s-inspired video by Hamish McCallion, loosely suggested by Ming Tea’s appearance in the first Austin Powers film. Stay tuned for more from this star on the rise.
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