The sound of a winter storm in your head is the dynamic of siera wiski’s song “moondore.” Icy synth lines echo, highly processed vocals run through like Alice Glass gone fully ambient pop. The lyrics describe being in an emotional place of stasis with seemingly no way out with time around you moving forward but you’re moored to your own low state without the wonders of the world or dreams and aspirations to pull you out of it. But the raw, ethereal sweep of the song suggests that maybe those events that seem to pass you by might bring something your way to nudge you out of your psychic quicksand in a way you didn’t seem coming and had no hope for happening. And in that dynamic of the song there is a ghost of hope and sometimes that’s enough. It is a gripping and gorgeous evocation of depression in the broad experience of it without hackneyed rhetoric and that’s exceedingly rare. Listen to “moondore” on Soundcloud and follow siera wiski at the links provided. The song is also available as a t-shirt on Bandcamp linked below.
Queen City Sounds and Art 
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