🧀 Ground Control. . . 🐀

📸 by @Pedro Patti

We’re proud to welcome the otherworldly sights and sounds of Starly Kind to our CorpoRAT Records family.

In that liminal space between dreams and nightmares resides Starly Kind. There, the project’s mastermind, Starly Lou Riggs, presides over a hellscape infested with demonic symbolism, esoteric childhood lore, intrepid pan-genre explorations, stuffed animals, chains, spikes, and white lace. Within this self-stylized perdition, they explore the intricacies of gender in relation to societal pressures, feeling monstrous in the wake of structured gender roles and expectations.

Starly Kind is the culmination of Riggs as a multi-hyphenate creative: a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, journalist, visual artist, among other things. To date, Starly Kind has released a pair of singles and a live EP, and performed throughout Brazil and Portland, Oregon where they lived previously, then playing in the

doom-y griefgaze band, Death Parade.

Starly Kind invites comparisons to King Woman, Chelsea Wolfe, Nuvolascura, and yeule. Riggs’s songs are adventurous collage art, flirting with but never committing to emo, punk, doom,

screamo, shoegaze, new glitch, jazz, Brazilian music, and haunting David Lynch-esque cinematic musicality. These tracks are thrilling sojourns through challenging odd time signatures, startling dynamic shifts, and dense textural passages featuring clarinet, flute, and distressed samples. They are frightening,

empowering, and oddly comforting.

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