Flawed Mangoes

Evan Lo, from Newton, Massachusetts, playing piano from childhood and guitar from middle school. Mostly wordless, bittersweet electronic-folk miniatures — gentle, looping, melancholy-but-warm — which found their audience in 2023 when they became the default soundtrack to "hopecore" videos. "Killswitch Lullaby" is a July 2023 single from exactly that moment; the instrumental album Killswitch Melodies followed later that year, and "Dramamine" arrived in 2024. A prolific composer whose career was essentially built by an internet subculture reaching for something optimistic.

From the notes for Episode 02 · fact-checked Sep 23, 2026.