Tegan Wahlgren's Wallgrin
SCA BFA (music) grad has a record release for her debut album , as her "art-pop" alter ego , at on July 3, 2018. Find the full show info . In a December 2016 profile in , Tintin Yang describes the Wallgrin project like this:
Tegan uses Wallgrin to explore sound, be it screeching or harsh violin riffs, the more experimental the better. Her new album, Bird/Alien (to be released early 2017) plays on unconventional noises with fantastical lyrics, providing listeners a distinct sonic experience. The album plays on her own interpretation of a sci-fi aesthetic, and is heavily based in motifs of mythology. Often beginning experimentally, she starts with melodies, then layers walls of sound, then adds lyrics. It builds a portrait of Wallgrin and the mythological women whom she channels.
Wahlgren's new label, , which also works with SCA MFA student , goes deeper still to capture Wahlgren's unique combination of live-looped violin and vocals:
Interweaving legends and folklore amidst intricate harmonies and pop sensibilities, Wallgrin gives voice to the mythological beings that have long occupied the fringes of the cultural imagination. Bird/Alien explores the inner lives of the most sinister creatures of legends, embodying their anger, jubilation, sorrow and tenacity. Banshees scream over the murmurs of forgotten demigods; the cries of harpies cut through rich primeval hymns. The album depicts a deeply intimate look into these imagined lives, all while questioning the symbolism of gender in mythology and the expressions of femininity and masculinity in relation to power.
Bird/Alien is available to stream and download and is available on CD, too. To read Yang's complete profile of Wallgrin, go .