Saint Avangeline

For Saint Avangeline, making music is a conduit for self-salvation-a divine catharsis she refers to as "sucking the poison out of my soul." As shown on her spellbinding viral hit 'Lilith', the 23-year-old artist brings a lavish originality to that process of transmutation, endlessly channeling her most unbearable feelings into songs steeped in a raw ethereal beauty. In the latest manifestation of her extravagant vision, Saint Avangeline now shares a selection of songs that drift from ethereal dream-pop to dark wave to a wildly enchanted genre all her own-ultimately charting a path from painful delusion to the sublime awakening of true love.'Limerence', the first offering from Saint Avangeline's new collection of singles, emerged from a stream-of-consciousness writing session, then evolved into an otherworldly but ominous portrait of anguished infatuation. "When I wrote 'Limerence' it was meant to be a love song, because I'd never written one before but after I broke up with my partner and listened back, I realized it was a cry for help. The lyrics came to me when I was in an abusive relationship, and it was like my subconscious was writing something that I couldn't yet understand." Another song sparked from that relationship, 'Carolina Creature', unfolds in a dreamlike haze as the artist reflects on a complicated memory from their early days together. "On our first date we went to a lake and had such a lovely day. I remember them spinning me around in the water and feeling so happy and warm. 'Carolina Creature' is about looking back on that day, but from a place of realising how they turned out to be a completely different person than I thought they were."Finally, on 'Rain Dance' Saint Avangeline brings her mesmerizing vocals to a melancholy reverie, layering the track with luminous melodies and hypnotically gauzy guitar tones. "'Rain Dance' is my actual first love song", noting that she visualized the track in lush and vivid greens. "It's about me and my current partner finding each other and connecting, and healing each other's inner child. I love how this collection of songs starts in a dark place of false love, and then ends with the sweetness and innocence of feeling such a pure love for another person."Also including a gorgeously brooding cover of Type O Negative's goth-metal classic 'Love You to Death' Saint Avangeline's latest output marks a dazzling addition to a body of work that encompasses her 2022 debut album 'Gardener of Eden' and her 2024 sophomore LP 'Inferno' along with a series of standalone singles. As she looks back on her work to date, Saint Avangeline speaks to the singular joy she's discovered in communing with those who find solace in her music. "Sometimes queer women will reach out and tell me how it feels good that there's someone creating my style of music but talking about the lesbian experience. I also hear from people who've gone through abuse or assault, and who tell me I expressed something that they couldn't put into words on their own. At the end of the day, I wrote all of these songs to save myself-so the idea that they could end up helping someone else really means so much to me"