Emily Yacina spent the summer in Alaska, working for an environmental nonprofit. The experience seems to have influenced Heart Sky, the N.Y.C. college student's new surprise album of understated home recordings, in a couple of ways. The sound design — composed mainly of rickety percussion; heavy-lidded melodies; auxiliary ambient noise; and Yacina's beautiful voice, which is often doubled or tripled to mesmerizing effect — has a kind of pastoral curiosity to it. Listening feels like exploring a distant state on a sunny day. But the Alaska trip also afforded Yacina time to … read more
Emily Yacina spent the summer in Alaska, working for an environmental nonprofit. The experience seems to have influenced Heart Sky, the N.Y.C. colleg… read more
Emily Yacina spent the summer in Alaska, working for an environmental nonprofit. The experience seems to have influenced Heart Sky, the N.Y.C. college student's new surprise album o… read more
Los Angeles-based songwriter Emily Yacina has been churning out charming collections of scratchy indie pop since 2011, when she was a young teenager armed with little more than an acoustic guitar and rudimentary recording gear. Since then, with each of the fractured releases she's unceremoniously uploaded to her Bandcamp page, she's settled into a quietly commanding songwriting mode descendent from Cat Power's early dirges or some of the more somber acts from the K Records stable.
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Los Angeles-based songwriter Emily Yacina has been churning out charming collections of scratchy indie pop since 2011, when she was a young teenager armed with little more than an acoustic … read more
Los Angeles-based songwriter Emily Yacina has been churning out charming collections of scratchy indie pop since 2011, when she was a young teenager armed with little more than an acoustic guitar and rudimentary recording gear. Since t… read more