Acraea

ACRAEA is a Brooklyn-based synth pop duo, consisting of singer-songwriter Leora Mandel, and composer/producer Samn Johnson. Their debut single, “Ions”, is the first release off a lyrically-driven concept record telling the story of a queer sci-fi/fantasy romance in English and Hebrew. ACRAEA’s music centers warm, playful vocals and brims with custom synth timbres, field recordings & found sounds, and glittery, idiosyncratic textures. Leora and Samn met at Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan and later moved to NYC where they continued to work together and develop their sound.

In the narrative of the bubbly electro pop single “Ions”, an engineer isolated in a manipulative relationship finds the hair of another woman under her partner’s pillow case and realizes that though the object is small, it contains a wealth of information. Enough information, in fact, to build a clone and meet this mystery woman face to face. She begins the song feeling stuck inside while her partner is out, and ends it out dancing herself with a beautiful new connection who shares much in common.

ACRAEA draws influences from the poetry of Anne Carson, Icelandic choral music, and science fiction from Ursula Le Guin to Black Mirror’s “San Junipero”.

Sounds Like: Björk, FKA Twigs, Purity Ring, Sylvan Esso, Austra, Baths, Caroline Polachek, Four Tet, Charli XCX, Sufjan Stevens