Alysia Kraft’s Dazzling Debut Album Shares the Human Experience in Indie-Pop Form

Alysia Kraft’s debut album First Light is a carefully crafted montage of life’s most brilliant and mundane moments. Out June 17, Kraft brings quiet introspection, vivid imagery and evocative lyricism to paint the picture of her life so far. Capturing these moments with dreamy indie-pop instrumentation, the record shares everything from finding love to almost losing life and the wondrous occasions in between. The album came about during quarantine in 2020. Kraft recalls creating art at the break of dawn, or better put, the First Light of the morning. “By the time dawn was pouring colors onto her palette, I was mixing them in mine – trying to stay in touch with the joy of being alive by writing, recalling, making demos,” she says. This free-flowing creativity seems to inform the feel o...

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