“What Is Living Above the Light” is the highly anticipated debut EP from fresh-faced indie pop duo Inanna. Their intimate, dreamy sound captivated audiences online and across the globe following the February release of their lead single Nebulou, which received radio plays and blog praise from major indie outlets including Radio Wigwam, Lone Frequencies, OUCH Magazine, and B-sides and Badlands. Inanna’s swirling guitars, haunting melodies, and effective arrangements recall dream pop acts of the late aughts such as Beach House and Bat for Lashes, with soulful vocals reminiscent of those of Florence Welch.
Both born and raised in the agrarian heart of California, Hank Dorsey and Hannah Stewart met on the coast while attending the University of California, Santa Barbara. After college they moved back inland to start careers in Sacramento, where they also began playing music together. A year later, they left their jobs and struck out on the road, traveling across the country for three months in a Corolla, writing and playing music along the way. Now resettled on the California Central Coast, Hank is relatively new to the music scene, while Hannah brings a lifetime of education and experience in music theory and performance. Her voice brings a mature poise and blue-eyed soul character to complement Dorsey’s lo-fi, shoegaze-influenced sound. The result is raw, nostalgic, and decidedly original.
What Is Living Above the Light was born on the road from a mind striking out into the dark uncertainty of an uncharted path. Stewart’s emphatic vocals lull listeners into a dream, a contrast to emotional lyrics rife with hard, relatable truths. The six-track list is a commentary on the aspects of life as we don’t know it–ambition, ostracization, loss, the consciousness experiencing them and attempts at self-preservation–from a refreshing, insightful perspective. It is at once hazy and insistent, doggedly trying to pierce the veil and find the way forward. With a reverbed-out pop sound ranging from dream pop to acoustic, Dorsey and Stewart explore what is living above the light.
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