Del Water Gap

S. Holden Jaffe, a Brooklyn-based songwriter and producer, first unveiled his solo outlet Del Water Gap in the early 2010s, cultivating a captivating and personal strain of indie folk-pop. Before issuing the major-label debut Don't Get Dark in 2019, Jaffe put out a series of self-produced recordings and joint efforts, among them the streaming hit "High Tops" from 2017. Following guest appearances on Maggie Rogers' 2020 collection Notes from the Archive: Recordings 2011-2016, he delivered his self-titled second full-length in 2021. Jaffe sustained the partnership with Rogers by contributing production to her next album, then resurfaced with I Miss You Already + I Haven't Left Yet in 2023.

Originally from Connecticut, Jaffe moved to New York once he completed studies at NYU's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music in 2012. That same year brought the first Del Water Gap EP, which he had tracked the previous year inside a storage closet at his upstate New York boarding school. Further self-released projects such as Sleeping in 2014 and 1 (646) 943 2672 in 2017 allowed him to refine his bedroom pop approach, the latter yielding the streaming hit "High Tops." His major-label bow arrived in 2019 via Don't Get Dark on Terrible Records, an imprint under Universal; the set earned airplay on NPR's All Songs Considered and triggered sell-out concerts across New York and Los Angeles.

Del Water Gap signed with Mom + Pop in 2020 and unveiled the lush, driving single "Ode to a Conversation Stuck in Your Throat." Later that year Jaffe joined fellow bedroom-pop artist Claud on "My Body," while the 2021 dream-pop tracks "Sorry I Am" and "Hurting Kind" framed his self-titled sophomore album. In the following year he co-wrote and produced two songs for Rogers' Surrender, then returned to his own catalog. The hook-driven 2023 single "All We Ever Do Is Talk" previewed the third album I Miss You Already + I Haven't Left Yet, whose title originated from a message to Jaffe's grandmother discovered inside a William Carlos Williams poetry volume. Co-produced by Sammy Witte (Harry Styles, Halsey) and Ethan Gruska (Phoebe Bridgers), the LP also features appearances by Clairo and Arlo Parks.