Arielle Kasnetz, the LA-based singer-songwriter who goes by the moniker Beatrix, had to discover her own voice. For most of her life, she trained in classical music, spending hours practicing vocal scales and learning piano pieces. But the stories she told weren’t hers, the words and the feelings somebody else’s who had lived a long time ago. It wasn’t until the pandemic, stuck in her bedroom with an acoustic guitar that someone had gifted to her a few birthdays ago, that she began to try writing for herself.

On her forthcoming project, she explores a formative relationship from her past and the reverberations that it left. With an expansive, yearning sound that combines alternative singer-songwriter influences in the form of indie rock, folk and chamber-pop, it’s the sound of a songwriter as committed to honesty and self-exploration as to constant musical progression. The songs are striking and off-kilter, full of surprising melodic turns or boldly arranged instrumentals, and careening from hushed piano numbers to loud full-band blasts. It's a reckoning with how the past bleeds into the present that’s moving, raw, yet perfectly crafted. Unmistakably Beatrix’s story, told in Beatrix’s voice.