Kira Metcalf is here for a long time, not a good time. Blending poetic lyricism with dynamic vocals, Metcalf’s songwriting examines the agonizing contradictions of sexuality, womanhood, grief, and late stage capitalism. Like the compulsive urge to pick a scab, her music lures you into emotional landscapes that, though frightening to look at, are impossible to turn away from.

Her debut album, Lessons in Majestic Humiliation, is about subconsciously trying to fill a hole, the delicate process of extracting and discarding vices like splinters lodged in your foot, family and sex and relationships, the toxic & intoxicating, the treasured & lost.