LADYLIKE

After soft-launching the idea of starting a project together at End of the Road, the band’s initial practices took place in a recital room on a brutalist university campus. A setting that, on the surface, is wildly at odds with the rural authenticity of their sound. Pause and look, however, and the campus may have seeped its way into the architectural structures of their songs, with an emphasis on functionality, honesty, and the incorporation of rougher textures and exposed materials. The alchemy lies in the band’s ability to marry those spaces, and when raw elements meet modernity, they absolutely soar. “We’ve now upgraded to a small, warm and sticky shared practice space that has a lingering smell of yeast from the bakery next door.” divulges Georgia. Despite this, their songs still claim room to inhale and exhale, to meander, and shake loose the dammed-up anomie of modern living with a gentle gut-punch of glorious folk-tinged rapture.