EP Release Show

Valley Boy

plus special guests

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Valley Boy Plus Special Guests

Valley Boy

Gigs

Los Angeles

Genghis Cohen

Los Angeles-based trio untitled (halo) is composed of Jack Dione, Jay Are, and Ari Mamnoon. Known individually for their sonic, visual, literary, and film contributions, untitled (halo) come together to create a unique sound inspired by and for the hazy culture of Southern California.

Their debut single, ‘el prado freestyle’, examines the level of pastiche of living/working/dating in this city and was organically picked up by the likes of Pitchfork Founder Ryan Schreiber, cult independent radio NTS, and Travis Mills to name a few. Their upcoming debut EP towncryer is visceral, gritty, and sentimental. untitled (halo) ultimately captures the dewy-eyed feelings of young adulthood and the resignation in denying extreme emotion.

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untitled (halo) EP Release with Ky Newman and Viv Lira

untitled (halo) 

Sid The Cat Presents

La Perla

W/ YUKA, El Marchante (DJ Set)

9/24/2023 at Genghis Cohen

La Perla is a musical project created by Karen Forero, Giovanna Mogollón and Diana Sanmiguel, musicians investigating the musical tradition of the Colombian Caribbean with more than 10 years of experience in interpreting the format of gaitas and drums and sung dances. It was born in 2014 and throughout these years they have maintained a basic training, where they have invited other members to join and build in different stages until defining the aesthetic and staging resources that have allowed them to stand out in the capital and national environment.

In 2015 they were winners of the Gaita’s Festival of Ovejas, Sucre, in the amateur category as the first group from Bogotá and the second group of women to win this recognition in the entire history of the festival. Since then it has been an innovative project that, inspired by the traditional sounds of the Caribbean, pays tribute to cultural legacies, which ventures through other routes of the greater Caribbean and which converge in spaces of innovation, until reaching an original sound with attitude and with a very unique charisma that fully represents the new Colombian music.

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SID THE CAT

La Perla

La Perla - Bruja

There's a joke Hana Bryanne has been dying to tell you. Dollface, the debut LP from the American singer, writer, and emotional brunette, out September 15th, is a study of contradictions: it's folk music about the internet, lullabies about sexual violence, dance music about her mother's illness.

The album sees her twangy indie sensibilities take on new colors amidst her heart-wrenching meditations on love and loneliness. To accompany the album, an essay written by the singer, also called Dollface, appeared in the magazine Talkhouse on the 16th of June. It's the first of a series of companion pieces, showcasing Bryanne's deft pen, thin skin, and clarity of voice as a writer. She is currently based in Los Angeles.

With support from Haley Hansen.

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Hana Bryanne Album Launch With Haley Hansen

Haley Hansen

Hana Bryanne

Sid The Cat Presents

Cece Coakley

W/ Ethansroom, Caity Krone

9/28/2023 at Genghis Cohen

Cece Coakley is hitting her stride. In the wake of her debut 2022 EP “Tender,” the 22-year old singer-songwriter is exploring a world beyond her native Knoxville, literally and metaphorically.

Fresh off touring with rising acts like Medium Build, Stephen Sanchez, Field Guide and Ella Jane, Coakley has no shortage of new experiences to draw from. “The first EP came out of living at my parents’ house,” she explains. “Now I’m writing new songs on the road and trying them out live the same night –– I’ve grown up so much making this new music.” Splitting her time between Nashville and LA, Coakley partnered with new collaborators like Andy Seltzer (Maggie Rogers, Samia) and Jake Munk (Miley Cyrus, Ethan Tasch) to help her cultivate her ideas without “dimming their light.”

Throughout her new writing, Coakley examines life on a larger scale –– from missing friends across time zones to the bittersweet feeling of returning home. The old version of Coakley is its own character in her writing, forcing her to look over her shoulder at the life she grew out of. In the lineage of other crossover artists like Taylor Swift and Kacey Musgraves, Coakley’s reflections on coming of age feel both universal and intimate, delivered in soaring pop hooks over beds of jangly acoustics, banjo and slide guitar. The influence of the country artists she grew up on shines through, delivering her narrative lyricism with an emotional, powerhouse voice.

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Cece Coakley

Caity Krone

BRONZE @ GENGHIS COHEN

PC MUSIC + BRAIN DEAD PRESENTS

THY SLAUGHTER

ASTRA KING

BASECK

LECX STACY

Celebrating 10 Years of PC Music

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Brain Dead Studios

BRAIN DEAD PRESENTS BRONZE - Celebrating 10 Years of PC Music

PC Music, Hannah Diamond, Life Sim - True - Life Sim Remix

Join us for “The Monthly”, a comedy show produced by Kim Lupe and Jeremy Beth Michaels featuring comics seen on NBC, MTV, Comedy Central, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime and More! NY style Chinese food and full bar at the iconic Genghis Cohen.

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The Monthly Comedy 

comedy

Comedy

With the upcoming new MOSSS album, Rob McCurdy continues to define his voice on his own terms, deepening the layers of pop with a sonic experience that’s as catchy as it is immersive. Rob has been releasing music both as an artist and behind the scenes as a writer/producer for as long as he can remember. MOSSS's 2019 self-released debut, The Pale Blue EP has earned him a bit of a cult following, amassing over 50,000,000 streams since its release.

Born and raised NY's Hudson Valley, the MOSSS project originated around the time Rob moved to Los Angeles, as a way to stay in touch with his own artistic instincts. The title track, "East," is an ode to his North East roots and takes inspiration from his earliest days of playing guitar in friend's basements.

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MOSSS Album Release

MOSSS - Here If You Want (Pale Blue)

MOSSS

Dan and Leland's ferocious guitar playing, sublimely crafted songs, “saintly harmonies and reflective lyrics" (Music Connection) have been leaving listeners slack-jawed for nearly two decades. Anchored by aggressively catchy hooks and intelli-pop ear-candy production, the Los Angeles based eclectic-rock duo started garnering attention and acclaim with the release of their 2006 acoustic debut album, New Directions.

Their second album, The Rush of Sights and Sounds (2007), marked D&L's departure into the realm of shimmering electric guitars and pile-driving drums courtesy of Nate Morton (NBC’s The Voice, CBS's Rockstar), which The Daily Vault called “an extremely entertaining album, a feast for the senses full of pleasant surprises. \[Dan and Leland are\] Top 40 hitmakers from a parallel universe.”

In 2015, Dan and Leland released Mind of Mirrors, a combination concept album/graphic novel “that blends both the visual imagery that a graphic novel presents to its readers, and also the thought provoking depths produced when listening to an emotionally charged album” (Dark Media), “an ambitious effort that succeeds as a graphic novel and a very fine album.” (Vintage Guitar Magazine)

Their October 4th performance at Genghis Cohen marks their return to the public stage together for the first time since 2017.

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Dan and Leland at Genghis Cohen

This Thing Between Us

Dan and Leland 

Improvement Movement  
When asked to describe the project, Improvement Movement spokesman Joel Rogers said:

“Depending on the day of the week, Improvement Movement might be described as a loose amalgamation of Atlanta songsmiths, a hostile corporate takeover of your dads favorite band, or a generous waste of time.”

Improvement Movement includes (but is not limited to) a rotating cast of Atlanta musicians like Tony Aparo, Zach Pyles, Marshall Ruffin (The Mount, RUFFIN), Clark Hamilton (klark.sound, Safari Williams), — each a full-fledged artist in their own right — to execute their recordings and live shows.  
  
Klark Sound  
Clark Hamilton is a sensitive musician with extraordinary ability. His arrangements often capture a feeling of pastoral nostalgia. With an arsenal of diverse instrumentation, he wields a dense palette of sounds, emoting with a both a pure simplicity of heart and also an articulate complexity of contrasting rhythmic interludes and soundpieces. Clark is one of those unique masters of their craft, a persistent and unrelenting student who constantly surprises and beguiles the listener with a seemingly endless bag of tricks. Yet the tricks are without gimmick, and through the illusion that is the art of music, a genuine joy and selflessness shines through.

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Improvement Movement, Klark Sound

Improvement Movement

klark sound

The Shivas are a rock & roll band from Portland, Oregon that began in 2006. Since forming the band as high-school best friends, they have brought their raucous dance party to almost all 50 United States, and over 25 countries around the world. Meanwhile they released 7 full-length albums, and various EPs and singles on an array of labels including Tender Loving Empire, Suicide Squeeze, and K Records.

Their latest LP, ‘Feels So Good // Feels So Bad’ was released in September of 2021 on Tender Loving Empire. Late ‘21 and most of ‘22 was spent on the road as the group toured extensively through the U.S., Europe, and Mexico. Recently, The Shivas have been putting together their recording studio and releasing new material. This May the group released a new single ‘Perder’, a collaboration with longtime friends Carrion Kids from Mexico City. ‘Perder’ is a rendition of a song that has long been a favorite of both bands - originally performed by Las Pipas de la Paz, and written by Rulo Pipa.

This July saw the release of singles from the second EP volume of their covers project series, with ‘We Belong Together’ and ‘Love Buzz’. ‘Volume 2’ was released on August 1st and features 3 additional tracks.

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The Shivas, Cigarette Bums 

You Make Me Wanna Die

The Shivas

BAMM BAMM Presents

  
Godcaster  
Godcaster is a lambent pumping heart. Hysterically keen like birds. The sextet of Judson Kolk (vox, guitar), Bruce Ebersole (guitar, bass, vox, keys), David McFaul (vox, organ, guitar), Von Kolk (vox, guitar, keys), Jan Fontana (bass) and Sam Pickard (drums, percussion) explode in song with emotional heights and devastating passions, as if the most melancholic Beach Boys ballad was played at immeasurable volume. Founded by childhood friends \[Judson\] Kolk and Ebersole, the band traversed a variety of monikers, sounds and members over the years until 2018 when the band re-founded with the arrival of Mcfaul, \[Von\] Kolk and Pickard. Fontana, who had worked closely with the band in the past, joined a couple years later, thus solidifying the band's most refined and hard-hitting lineup to date. Godcaster has released one full length record and an EP, toured extensively, and is known for their epiphanous maximalist live shows. They will release their sophomore self-titled album in March of 2023.

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Godcaster, Brutus VIII

All the Feral Girls in the Universe

Godcaster

Sid The Cat Presents

Lady Apple Tree

10/19/2023 at Genghis Cohen

Lady Apple Tree is the solo project of Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Haylie Hostetter. Following the release of standalone single "Didn't Want to Have to Do It" (originally by The Lovin' Spoonful) in January 2023, "Silver Hands" is a preview of the debut Lady Apple Tree EP due for release later this year.

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Lady Apple Tree

Franky Fox

Sid The Cat Presents

PACKS

W/ Grady Strange

10/20/2023 at Genghis Cohen

In March 2020, as the world dealt with collective uncertainty, Madeline Link was dealing with unthinkable tragedy on a much more personal level. Her aunt, Lori Tate, was killed in Seattle, a victim of a hit-and-run. Madeline was spending the early weeks of lockdown with her parents and sister in Ottawa, stuck grieving remotely in Canada’s capital city with no distractions and nowhere to go.

“Laughter was the only way we were able to get through it,” says Madeline. “It was just us four, and all of us would be able to be silent whenever we needed to, and laugh and help each other out and cry when we needed to.”

And while the specter of death looms over Crispy Crunchy Nothing and its brisk, folk-rock vignettes of loneliness, yearning and confusion, so too does Madeline’s sense of humour. It’s bone-dry, tucked within her drawling vocals, and buried beneath guitars that alternately sneer and twang. But it’s there, the album’s beating heart — a sense of purpose and unflinching resolve evident even in its title, taken from Madeline’s description of biting into a moldy apple.

“Some bear in a hat told me only you prevent the fire,” sings Madeline on “Smallest One,” the same song where she tears through a series of Matryoshka dolls trying to find the end, a philosophy that gets her through life’s neverending problems. “I was seeing life as this series of challenges where there’s always going to be another thing you have to worry about. In theory, the dolls get smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller. But there’s always going to be another one after the next one.”

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PACKS

Grady Strange

Tav Falco’s Panther Burns with support from Jolie Holland.

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Tav Falco’s Panther Burns

Jolie Holland

Sid The Cat Presents

Marem Ladson

W/ Micah Preite

10/23/2023 at Genghis Cohen

In the depths of Marem Ladson's music lies a profound exploration of her cross-cultural identity, intertwining her unique approach to lyrical and introspective songwriting with influences from folk, pop, and Spanish traditional music.

Hailing from Galicia in northern Spain, Marem sought solace from an early age in the written word, penning short stories and poems that served as windows into her internal world. It was not long before she discovered the transformative power of music, teaching herself to play the guitar and transforming her literary creations into heartfelt songs. It was through music that she sought to understand herself, seeking connection and a true sense of belonging. In Galicia, she found a close-knit community of musicians at Café Torgal, a small indie music venue that birthed her artistic awakening. It was there that she immersed herself in the music of artists like Damien Jurado, Matthew E. White, and Lee Ronaldo, while also stepping onto the stage for her first live performances. In 2018, she released her self-titled debut album, which led to extensive touring in Spain and Portugal, sharing stages with renowned acts like Cat Power and Laura Gibson.

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Marem Ladson

Micah Preite

Alice Howe & Freebo

To hear Alice Howe sing is to be enraptured by the natural, unaffected beauty of her voice, “a marvelous instrument, strong and effortlessly musical, yet also capable of the sort of nuance that adds layers of meaning” (The Patriot Ledger). The Los Angeles-based, Boston-bred singer-songwriter-guitarist was named Best Female Artist at the 2023 International Acoustic Music Awards.

Her second and latest album Circumstance was produced by her creative partner Freebo, the legendary rock bassist best known for his decade of touring and recording with Bonnie Raitt, and recorded at iconic FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.Alice Howe and Freebo have worked as creative collaborators in the studio and on stage since 2017. Each a compelling performer in their own right, they both lead and support each other in their well-crafted songs with flawless harmonies and tasteful instrumentation. Freebo weaves his unique fretless bass stylings into Alice's superb vocals for a presentation with undeniable chemistry.

Freebo has distinguished himself as one of the great bassists of our time, playing on records with Bonnie Raitt, CSN, Maria Muldaur, John Mayall, Ringo Starr, Dr. John, and Neil Young as well as appearing on Saturday Night Live, The Midnight Special, The Muppet Show, and in concert with the legendary Spinal Tap.

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Alice Howe & Freebo

**Lara Sarkissian**

Lara Sarkissian is a Los Angeles-based electronic musician, interdisciplinary artist, and a broadcaster on NTS Radio. Her electroacoustic music sequences Armenian folk instruments and samples underscored with an electronic rhythmic pulse that draws from a deep appreciation for underground dance music, industrial, noise, and dark ambient. Sarkissian creates immersive sonic landscapes utilizing field recordings, film samples, Armenian sharakan (chant), texts, and various digital and analog instruments. She has released with labels Tresor, Knekelhuis, All Centre, TT, CLUB CHAI, and scores for video and immersive AV installations that have been exhibited across museums in North America and Europe.

**Cruel Diagonals  
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Since 2016, Los Angeles-based multimedia artist, Cruel Diagonals (aka Megan Mitchell), has been creating critically acclaimed experimental electronic music and intriguing visuals. Per Dazed Magazine, Mitchell is “blessed with a voice that could hold its own in the worlds of opera or classical…a singer’s singer,” though her compositions and improvisations are the antithesis of staid tradition or arid academic exercises.

**Nihar  
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Nihar is a South-Asian American experimentalist, musician, and sound designer based in San Francisco, CA. His work contributes to the modern re-invention of the "industrial music" category within a non-eurocentric and consistently anti-capitalist framework.

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Lara Sarkissian (Live Set), Cruel Diagonals, Nihar

Fortress in the Clouds

Lara Sarkissian

Cruel Diagonals

Nihar

Lauren Lakis  
A child of Baltimore, Lauren grew to embrace the fatalistic spirit of the city in her work and art. With stunningly raw, haunting tones, Lakis is “a breath of fresh air in the music industry, arriving with her own brand of “delightfully gut-churning shoegaze”’ (Flaunt).

Previous releases include 2021’s full length album Daughter Language, released via Green Witch Recordings (Pearl Earl, Pale Dian, Timothy Eerie), and 2019’s Sad Girl Breakfast via Portland’s Cavity Search Records (Elliott Smith, Helio Sequence). Both releases have garnered radio airplay on 40+ stations nationwide, and placement on 150+ Spotify playlists, as well as critical acclaim from Flaunt, Metal Mag, Wonderland, Grimy Goods, Buzzbands LA, Atwood, Earmilk, Ladygunn, Post-Punk and more.

Roze Haze  
ROSE HAZE is the genre-bending musical project of Kate Ramsey, a mercurial songwriter, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist with a penchant for analog synths. Ramsey emits an ethereal feminine prowess and powerful panache. Her unabashedly vulnerable lyrics explore the depths of the human experience.

Dream Phases  
You can keep your dreams under wraps or unleash them into the world. For the three musicians who comprise Dream Phases, holding back their musical visions has not been an option. Conceived in the private recesses of their L.A. home base, the trio has expanded outwards by drawing upon the rich sonic heritage of West Coast pop/rock and skillfully reimagining it for the 21st Century.

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Lauren Lakis, Rose Haze, Dream Phases 

Rose Haze - Posers

Lauren Lakis

Rose Haze

DREAM PHASES

Video Age Live @ Genghis Cohen presented by Minty Boi + Brain Dead

Bio: Video Age make breezy and timeless songs that are so ineffable, they can only be the result of a decades-long friendship and songwriting partnership. Across four albums, Ross Farbe and Ray Micarelli have gleefully worn their influences on their sleeve, writing inviting tunes that reference sounds ranging from disco to pop and indie rock. On their latest LP, Away From The Castle, the New Orleans duo have strayed from nostalgia and instead have honed their own unique musicality, making songs that sound like themselves with a taste of inspiration from classic singer-songwriters of the 60s and 70s. The album is a testament to the possibilities that come from getting out of your comfort zone, the freedom of writing vulnerably and unselfconsciously, and the joys of getting to work with your closest companions.

After releasing and eventually touring their critically-acclaimed third album Pleasure Line in 2020, Farbe and Micarelli sought inspiration for their next project through collaboration. They worked with Drugdealer on his album Hiding In Plain Sight, Micarelli gigged throughout New Orleans' jazz and blues scenes, and Farbe recorded local artists at his home studio, most recently producing Esther Rose's new album Safe to Run. Feeling refreshed, they rented a cabin in Eunice, Louisiana with touring members Nick Corson and Duncan Troast, where they spent eight days in August 2022 jamming, cooking and writing together.

Through this process, Video Age have made their best collection of tracks to date by perfectly alchemizing their influences and experiences into a record still tinged with nostalgia, but moving towards a more succinct and authentic voice. Away From The Castle is a document of a band having fun and rediscovering their love for making music together, but it’s also their most honest and personal work yet–Video Age distilled to its purest form.

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Video Age Live @ Genghis Cohen

Video Age

The genesis of any given rock n’ roll band is often shrouded in myth. When does a band actually begin? Is it the first practice? The first song written together?

SadGirl was born into the world when they played their first show in their native Los Angeles back in November 2013. To commemorate their first full decade together, the band is paying homage to the SoCal area by embarking on SadWorld -- a regional tour / traveling mini-festival of the towns and neighborhoods that fostered them since the beginning.

SadWorld consists of ten nights of intimate shows throughout the various communities in which SadGirl cut their teeth in their early years, each with their own unique and hand-picked support artists. This run of shows is meant to be both a celebration of the local scenes that helped shape and support the band, as well as a challenge to the modern touring model. In keeping with SadGirl’s penchant for small-batch DIY designed merch, the band will be offering limited edition, show-specific merch items at each stop on the SadWorld run, as well as a new vinyl compilation of old classics, rarities, and live versions of fan-favorites. Each show will be announced one day at a time, all leading up to SadGirl’s biggest headlining show to date.

In a musical landscape that increasingly favors the global prospects offered by the internet, SadGirl has opted to focus on the organic grassroots process of old school gigging and building their audience one show at a time. By bringing their danger-draped, lo-fi doo-wop and vintage rock 'n roll to the people in their neighborhood hangouts, SadGirl reminds audiences across Southern California of the power and immediacy of a band raised in the trenches of punk spaces and dive bars, rather than in the cold sterility of the online world.

With the Pomona and Highland Park shows already announced and sold out, the unveiling of SadWorld is underway. SadGirl is beyond thrilled to celebrate ten years with the friends and fans they’ve made over the last decade and are excited to subvert the old touring model by sharing it with the communities that helped define their art.

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SadWorld 10 Sad Years of SadGirl Live at Genghis 

Little Queenie

SadGirl

Spirit Award  
  
Telehealth  
  
Genghis Cohen

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Spirit Award, Telehealth

Pushing Forward

Telehealth

Spirit Award

Sid The Cat Presents

Stephen Steinbrink Album Release Show

W/ Dear Nora, Cole Pulice

11/18/2023 at Genghis Cohen

Stephen Steinbrink is an American songwriter and producer. The majority of his youth was spent living an improvised and experimental existence, making music in the fabled west coast DIY music community. Currently living in Oakland, CA, he splits his time between songwriting, production, and his career as a stained glass conservator.

Since 2007, Steinbrink has released eight LPs of his own brand of strange folk pop music on Western Vinyl and Melodic records, and has collaborated onstage and in the studio with Boy Scouts, Dear Nora, Girlpool, AJJ, LAKE, and many others.

“Recalls the magic pop purity of Arthur Russell… its minimalism manages to feel enlightened and transformative.” -Pitchfork

“Lushly arranged pop songs, the listener can tie and untie Steinbrink’s vivid and unrelated images into something meaningful” -NPR

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Stephen Steinbrink Album Release Show

Stephen Steinbrink - Brand New Manic Brain Holder

Stephen Steinbrink

Dear Nora

Cole Pulice

Sid The Cat Presents

Maple Glider

11/28/2023 at Genghis Cohen

For Tori Zietsch, who records emotionally direct and woozily romantic songs under the moniker Maple Glider, music has been an escape from a series of oppressive institutions: religion, enervating relationships, her own brain. Zietsch’s music has formed new pathways both literal and metaphorical; physical and neural, that have allowed her to step outside herself, and shake you—yes, you, the listener—by the hand.

At 14, Zietsch freed herself from her restrictive and deeply limited religious upbringing and at 15—after learning to play guitar from a chord book—she played her first show, at a skate park. After touring the open mic scene in Brisbane, moving internationally to the UK, and returning to Melbourne, she released her critically lauded debut album To Enjoy is the Only Thing in 2021, which Rolling Stone described as “one of the most accomplished debut albums in recent years.”

I Get Into Trouble is a thematic expansion of her debut, going into greater and clearer detail, as she delves back into her Christian childhood while deconstructing her relationship to her body and her sexuality, alongside concepts of consent and shame. “Dinah,” a deceptively whimsical ditty, is the album’s entry-point to these themes, and it’s as infectious as an earworm wriggling through Eve’s apple. “I’ve been in the church making sure no one’s looking up my skirt,” she sings, on one of the poppiest songs she’s ever recorded.

Throughout Zietsch’s second album, she draws similar parallels between religion and sexuality in novelistic detail, before landing on a note of hopeful optimism, and embracing a new life of peacefulness. “This album feels more like an opening up because there are things I wasn't feeling ready to publicly share through songs, but now I finally feel ready,” she says.

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Maple Glider

Don't Kiss Me

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