IAN SWEET

Jilian Medford, better known by her stage name Ian Sweet, is an American indie rock musician from Los Angeles, California. For Medford, reciting mantras - leaning into the repetition, retraining your brain, and learning new realities is a way to fight through her anxieties.

Show Me How You Disappear, IAN SWEET's 2021 album, is a haze of tangled, inverted pop. Mesmeric and kaleidoscopic, shimmering with electrified unease, it is both an exercise in self-forgiveness and an eventual understanding of unresolved trauma. Medford’s third record as IAN SWEET unfolds at an acute juncture in her life, charting from a mental health crisis to an intensive healing process and what comes after. How do you control the thoughts that control you? What does it mean to get better? What does it mean to have a relationship with yourself?

Dizzying and enthralling, Show Me How You Disappear is the sound of someone coming apart and putting themselves back together — the moment an old mantra, repeated into the mirror time and time again, finally clicks. To look at your reflection, and finally feel seen.

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Events featuring IAN SWEET

Mar 17, 2022
11:00pm — 11:40pm
Presented by
Polyvinyl / Double Double Whammy / Keeled Scales
Mar 18, 2022
8:00pm — 8:45pm
Mar 18, 2022
11:10pm — 11:50pm
Presented by
The Daniel Johnston Trust and Electric Lady Studios Present: Hi, How Are You: The Unfinished Fest
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Los Angeles, CA
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Indie Rock