Pictoria Vark jokes that she’s “the Carmen Sandiego of indie-rock.” The songs on her excellent debut ‘The Parts I Dread’ take her from Brooklyn streets to Iowa prairies. Read Why she's our latest Artist You Need to Know.
where she asks, “Can’t I blame you for everything? / Market crashes, mood swings?” But she really nails that vibe of a restless 20-something heart, trying to figure out where she belongs.
“The sense of placelessness really informed the music,” she says, chatting from her extremely indie-rock-ish pad in Iowa City. She madein lockdown with childhood friends Jason Ross and Gavin Caine. “We never met at a studio or anything—the whole album was done remotely. At my Brooklyn show last summer, it was the first time every person who played on the record was in one room at the same time.”
But ironically, that meant she was recording all these emotional travelogues while stuck at home. As she admits, “Me doing a hundred takes of vocals in my room is not exactly my picture of catharsis.” Park grew up a New Jersey emo kid, digging bands like The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die. “When I was in elementary school I listened to Paramore and stuff like that,” she says. “But in middle school, I heard Neutral Milk Hotel and Bright Eyes and said, ‘These are the best songs I’ve ever heard in my life.’ I remember the specific moment I heard this one Bright Eyes songwrite a song.
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