AMAARA Reveals Hazy Dream-Pop “Bright Lights” Single + Video Available across platforms here. Debut Album Child of Venus Due Out July 7 on Lady Moon Records Singles: “New Love’s Mortal Coil” “Bright Lights” “I’m enthralled by a six-song EP from the artist known as AMAARA” – NPR, Bob Boilen “surreal and nuanced.” – Exclaim! |
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Credit: Christian Sorensen Hanson Child of Venus is the striking debut full length album from Canadian-born singer, songwriter, producer, filmmaker and actor Kaelen Ohm (she/they) who performs under the musical moniker AMAARA. Due out July 7, the collection is classic-era dream pop at its core, drawing influence from jazz, R&B and folk music with reverb drenched guitars, soaring synths, layered vocal harmonies and expansive percussion. Cheeky synth-rock lead single “New Love’s Mortal Coil” earned acclaim from GLAAD, FEMMUSIC and more. Arriving today alongside a brand new official video, new single “Bright Lights’” lush instrumentation and psychedelic haze hits the road while ruminating about a long drive up to Big Sur taken in 2020. “I’d just been through a really tough situation in my life where the rug felt like it was pulled out from under me,” she recalls. “I found myself grappling with my role in letting it happen, and trying to let go of what I was still hanging onto.” |
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Click image above or HERE to watch / share “Bright Lights” Video Child of Venus is the culmination of a lifetime of artistic pursuits – a document of rediscovery and transition, with Kaelen Ohm coming up for air as an artist and human being truly reborn. As AMAARA, she is reflecting on love and loss throughout the album, as well as the healing power of pure psychedelia and the act of connecting with her inner child—which has led her to reflect on her own adolescence at large. “I’ve been on a journey of looking into my own childhood conditioning, and the notion of unbounded creative genius as well as where that goes wrong in adolescence,” she explains. A reflective work that zooms in on the things we hold close and what manages to escape our grasp, Child of Venus is a record that leaves a mark on anyone who hears it, in the best way possible. Kaelen Ohm is the definition of a multidisciplinary artist. Cutting her teeth in various Canadian indie bands as a front woman, guitarist and keyboard player, she has opened for a broad range of acts like St. Vincent, RY X, Shannon and the Clams, Vance Joy and The Counting Crows. Over the past six years, Ohm has nurtured a very successful career in film and TV. Following her starring role in the Netflix original series Hit and Run, she was cast in Season 2 of the hit horror series FROM (MGM+/Paramount+), by the creators of Lost. She has also appeared in various American shows and films including Taken (NBC), Condor (MGM) and Flint (Lifetime). |
