There are some performers who come to music later in life. Then, there are folks who you can just tell were voracious students and consumers of music since before they could talk. Seattle / Los Angeles / North Carolina based quartet Down North fall squarely into the latter group. Trying to pin genre tags onto their unique brand of psych-infused punk soul is an exercise in futility. These creatives pick and choose just-right bits and flavors drawn from the whole of modern western music like painters with unlimited palates.
Star Anna is a singer/songwriter/music maker from the Pacific Northwest. Her expertly crafted songs emerge from an ether of sounds, wrapping the listener in a lush ambiance while slowly building elements of mysterious, abrasive tension below the surface.