An evening or atmospheric melodies and ethereal impressions.

Alexia Avina

Alexia Avina is an ambient folk artist, organizer and fixture of Montreal's local DIY community. Through the use of both sparse and lush looping and ethereal melodic hooks, she balances between spaciousness and restraint, offering the listener a vast sense of calm. Her two LP's Betting on an Island and All That I Can't See have received acclaim from Stereogum, Gorilla Vs. Bear, and Gold Flake Paint. Her third LP, her first studio album, is set to release early 2020.

https://alexiaavina.bandcamp.com/

@alexiaavina

Yohuna

Mirroring by Yohuna is set to release on June 7, 2019 by Orchid Tape and Fear of Missing Out. As a songwriter and producer, Johanne Swanson—who performs as Yohuna—maintains a masterful ability to distill chaos into calm; to contemplate the more challenging and messy matters of heart and mind with a self-assured deadpan stare and pointed stillness. Whereas her previous work centered layers of synthesizer, Mirroring was written entirely on guitar, giving her new songs a sense of catharsis and physicality. And while her debut, 2016's Patientness, was a culmination of several formative years spent in flux, a document of coming and going, Mirroring is different: it has a set place and a time. Swanson wrote these intimate songs quickly in one purge in her bedroom in Brooklyn. When her roommate, Eric Littmann (Julie Byrne, Vagabon, Phantom Posse) heard her writing and recording them from the other side of his bedroom wall, he approached her to collaborate. Littmann ultimately co-produced, engineered, and mixed the record, alongside contributions from Adelyn Strei (guitar, flute), Warren Hildebrand (guitar) and many more friends. The results are some of Swanson's most sweeping arrangements to date, with cello riffs that sing like a grounding human voice, harp and trombone, drums that push her loudest hooks yet forward.

smarturl.it/mirroring

yohuna.bandcamp.com

Brent Penny

Brent Penny (Pennington) is a Minneapolis based experimental singer-songwriter and musician crafting his personal take on pop. Penny’s sound is informed by various shoegaze, ambient, folk, and experimental components. With deadpan lyrical delivery Penny combines that which is deeply visceral with the surreal.

Raised in a Mormon family, Pennington built his relationship to music through hymns.
The songs on ‘Choose The Right’ reflect on coming to terms with his decision to leave the church, embracing his queerness, and reclaiming and redefining faith.

Written in the final year of his twenties, the release of ‘Choose the Right’ speaks to the power of working independently and finding strength in making a name for yourself. Recorded in his home with producer Jordan Bleau (Cheap Fantasy) these 6 songs amount to a poignant debut of a multifaceted songwriter.

https://brentpenny.bandcamp.com/

@brent_penny