VRBA
On her new release for London experimental electronic label TT, Pittsburgh’s VRBA wants to take you to another realm, somewhere that “makes you want to sit on the ground and have your eyes roll back into your head and start levitating”.
Across nine tracks of eerie ambience, lucid sound design and deep, hypnotic beats, VRBA builds a sonic world inspired by personal experiences, late nights and early mornings dancing with friends in the underground LGBTQ+ music community, and a fascination with frequency, satanism and meditative musical zones. It’s a striking introduction to the artist, who has been exploring deeply personal themes through electronic music production for almost a decade, but who fully hit her stride in 2019 and has gone on to self-release several EPs through her Bandcamp.