New York instrumentalist and electronic music artist Thomas Arsenault, better known as Mas Ysa, has been largely out of the spotlight since releasing his 2015 LP Seraph and touring with the likes of Hundred Waters, Phantogram, Deerhunter and Julianna Barwick. It turns out there was a good excuse for…

Every week there’s a plethora of new music at our fingertips. Artists on platforms like Spotify and Bandcamp are plentiful, and the radio offers a steady deluge of new singles, but who has time to sort through all that? RIFF does! We’ve pooled our resources to find some of…

Mas Ysa (Thomas Arsenault). Courtesy. Thomas Arsenault knows the enchanted feeling of crossing into San Francisco over the Bay Bridge. The folk-pop-electronica composer and multi-instrumentalist, who goes by Mas Ysa on stage, has passed through the City numerous times, and even briefly lived in Sonoma. Phono del Sol, with…

Mas Ysa (Thomas Arsenault). Courtesy. You know that scene in a movie, where, after suffering through trials and tribulations, our hero finally overcomes all of his obstacles and prevails? Here’s the song to score the moment. Mas Ysa is Thomas Arsenault, and with “Look Up,” he’s created an acoustic-electronic hybrid that…