Andrea Wittgens with Braly Sangster

Twenty years into a critically-acclaimed music career, alt-pop artist Andrea Wittgens is giving herself permission to embrace artistic autonomy on her cinematic new full-length album, Big Dreams Little Earthlings (April 2025). Lavished with moody synths and soaring hooks, it is a love letter to the pomp and passion of the 1980s pop of Wittgens’s youth expressed by a woman who survived the decades that followed.

Wittgens is a Antigonish, Nova Scotia-born singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and visual artist who has cultivated an aesthetic that pulls from pop, classical, jazz, early punk, and 1980s new wave and dark wave. Signature to her songwriting are her adventurous soundscapes, deeply honest personal lyrics and her ability to complex themes into infectious pop settings.

Leslie Braly and Johnny Sangster have been singing and writing songs individually for decades, and they remain passionate pluralists in Seattle’s music scene – Sangster as an in-demand producer, engineer, and guitarist (The Tripwires, Mudhoney, Neko Case) and Braly as the leader of longstanding Americana outfit Pineola and sought-after collaborator. But something rare takes place when they write and perform together: a proverbial third voice joins the chorus. This voice speaks for the multiplicity of selves present in each of us – aching, stubborn, strutting, stumbling, crestfallen, deliriously in love – often in the space of a single measure or stanza. Their alchemy finds new expression and potency in Braly Sangster’s new album, Candy Wrappers.

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