Holland Andrews

Known for their long, improvised live sets and cinematic music, Andrews's albums are The Life of a Gentleman (2010), Bast (2014), and What Makes Vulnerability Good (2019).

[5] After visiting a friend there,[5] Andrews moved to Portland, Oregon at 19, and joined the music community, playing clarinet and singing in the indie-folk bands Meyercord and The Ocean Floor.

[9] However, they were able to still independently release a second album of music, called Bast, that they recorded with Mike Erwin, and members of Typhoon, the Ocean Floor, Machinedrum, and others.

[5] After another performance in the Time-Based Art Festival, Andrews—again as Like A Villain—recorded their third album, What Makes Vulnerability Good at Color Therapy Recording Studio in Portland with Arjan Miranda:[12] The songs germinated from processing their mother's suicide note in 2015.

Bandcamp's Casey Jarman wrote "These profoundly intimate glimpses at personal trauma round out Andrews's experimental spirit with something real, albeit gutwrenching.

“We were thinking of ways that transform and keep the listener interested without sacrificing who I am as an artist,” they said about the use of synthesizer effects with arrangements that included guests like saxophonist Joe Cunningham (Blue Cranes).

[6] In January 2021, under their own name for the first time, Andrews released under the Berlin-based record label Leiter Verlag, founded by Felix Grimm and Nils Frahm,[3] the single and video for “Gloss”, followed by the Wordless EP in February, which they wrote, produced and mixed themselves.

[18] In 2018, Andrews performed as one of the vocalists in Gabriel Kahane’s Emergency Shelter Intake Form, a live piece of 13 vignettes with full orchestra that premiered at the Oregon Symphony.[where?

[20] Andrews created the music soundtrack for the 2019 documentary, Zero Impunity, a film that presented incidents of sexual violence in armed conflicts around the world.

[21] In September 2020, they along with other experimental musicians Justin Hicks and Alicia Hall Moran, provided the soundtrack for Lee Mingwei’s meditative performance installation, Our Labyrinth, at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[3] In April 2023, Andrews took part in the filming of a rehearsal with four other Black performers for choreographer and artist Will Rawls's video work [siccer], shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.