SRSQ
This performance is part of the showcase that starts on Friday, March 18at Higher Ground
SRSQ (pronounced seer-skew) is the moniker of singer, musician, & elemental force Kennedy Ashlyn. From foundational years as co-founder of visionary shoegaze duo Them Are Us Too (w/ the late Cash Askew) through her growing body of solo work on Dais Records, she has steadily honed her multi-octave range & moodswing songcraft into an increasingly potent poetic voice. 2019’s celebrated debut, Unreality, showcased a deepening gift for melodic dynamics and emotive exorcism – a mode she half-seriously coined “griefwave.” The album’s passionate response prompted extensive live dates, further sharpening her natural performative instincts.
2022 further confirms Kennedy as an essential generational talent, able to synthesize private struggles & sorrows into stirring, redemptive anthems. Hers is a music of tumult & triumph, darkest night breaking into brightest dawn, where anguish blurs and becomes acceptance. SRSQ’s seeds have only just begun to bloom; looming tours, videos, & more will inevitably hasten an already radiant refinement.
“Dedication to my work will be my saving grace, and ultimately I’ll destroy the bullshit ideas of who I am or how I have to be, and experience true freedom."
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