Erisy Watt

LA-based songwriter and musician Erisy Watt released her third album, ‘not either or but everything,’ on October 4 via First City Artists. Described as “what contemporary folk sounds like at its peak,” by No Depression, her music often draws comparisons to 60s singer-songwriters. However, on her third record, co-produced by Luke Temple (Adrianne Lenker, Hand Habits), she shakes the sound loose from the tenets of decade or genre - an album ranging from earthy to cosmic, strikingly spare to richly textured, contemplative to playful.

Over the past decade, Erisy has toured extensively across the US and abroad. Currently based in LA, after growing up in Nashville and living in Portland, Erisy also spends part of the year in remote regions of Southeast Asia, where she works in environmental science. Her experiences in these settings have and continue to inform the content of her craft. Posing the abstract with the concrete, her songs speak to both the miraculous and mundane, the obvious and oblique, the magic and tragedy.

Lyrically, Erisy’s art is rooted in connection, and on not either or but everything, she hones an even deeper acuity for tracing the through line, peering through both telescope and microscope in search of the common threads. The album features Will Graefe (Maya Hawke, Okkervil River) on guitar and Kosta Galanopoulos on drums, with mastering by Heba Kadry. Hear not either or but everything on all platforms now or order it on vinyl through her website.