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Shaylee
Shaylee
country: Oregon, USA
genre: Alternative
styles: Indie Rock, Power Pop, Singer-Songwriter, Psychedelic Rock, Queer
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As Shaylee, Portland, Oregon’s Elle Archer creates lush, densely packed worlds of chamber rock. Her upcoming record, Short-Sighted Security, is an uncompromising, dark, and paranoid meditation on mid-twenties growing pains and the nagging feeling of knowing you need to change, but not knowing the right way forward. The interplay between silence and noise is tonally massive - and Elle uses this to her advantage to create an experience defined by polarity; capturing wide-eyed highs just as vividly as she does strung-out comedowns, often in the same song.
“It’s a personal album, for sure,” says Elle, who wrote and recorded the album almost entirely alone during quarantine in 2020. “I had nothing but time to dedicate to writing and recording, so I gave this record everything I had. I was spiraling out of control in my personal life, and yet the music kept getting bigger, and more grandiose, and I just kept pouring more and more into it until it became this behemoth and a huge source of release for me. It was keeping me going by means of sheer ambition for its own sake." This level of precision and dedication to craft is clear from the album's outset, and it makes to create an altogether unique entity and a disarmingly confident label debut.
latest releases
LP
The Name of this Band is Shaylee
out on November 15, 2024
via Kill Rock Stars
Single
Snow Day
out on January 18, 2023
via Kill Rock Stars
Single
Clearwater
out on September 01, 2022
via Kill Rock Stars
LP
Short-Sighted Security
out on March 18, 2022
via Kill Rock Stars
Single
#1 Destroyer Fan
out on November 16, 2021
via Kill Rock Stars
Single
Ophelia
out on September 08, 2021
via Kill Rock Stars
