Posted: by The Alt Editing Staff
Jeni Magaña’s been keeping busy. In addition to her work as Mitski’s bassist and backing vocalist, she’s also released two LPs since March; she’s back now with an EP to round it out. She describes Bad News as both “cozy core” and “winter pop,” four tracks of spacey, string-laden indie folk that perfectly suits her feathery, breathy vocals. It’s a pivot after the more eclectic indie rock of Teeth and the ambient soundscapes of Dreams, but it might be the very best of the three.
We’re excited to bring you an exclusive premiere of the Bad Dreams EP before it drops everywhere tomorrow. Speaking on the full thing, she shares that
This EP is the last of what I think of as an interconnected trio of releases. Teeth was made for spring, a period of growth. It was expansive and exploring. Dreams was made for fall. It was about dusk, the dawning of the restful months. Bad News is made for that period of time between the end of winter and the beginning of spring. Stillness before movement. Each song is about the period of time right before a transition: the realization that change is coming or that it needs to come. As the most lyrically driven of the releases, it is mostly about storytelling. I think of each track as a vignette of a moment in time for four different stories.
Check out Bad Dreams below.
Bad Dreams is out tomorrow via Audio Antihero.
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