Thayer Sarrano

Besides her solo work, she has collaborated with numerous bands as a touring member or session player, and is strongly affiliated with the music scene of Athens, Georgia.

There, musically educated since the age of 3 and having shown an earlier interest in poetry, she took up songwriting and started collaborating with local musicians, which led to her releasing solo albums, King (2009) and Lift Your Eyes to the Hills (2012), Shaky (2015), Wings Alleluia (2019) and a career as a session musician recording with several other acts (Discography) and touring with of Montreal, Kuroma and Dead Confederate.

[6] Reviewing King, Americana UK has called her "the new queen of shoegaze", noting the "spookiness" achieved with the lap steel, repetitive lyrics, dissonance and Sarrano's voice, and compared her to Mazzy Star and Mary Margaret O'Hara.

[1] Lift Your Eyes to the Hills features a heavy use of reverb, echoes, multi-tracked vocals, organ and pedal steel, flowing and diffuse sounds creating a "dark and dreamy"[6] style (it "is made of layers of shifting sound strata"[2]), mixed with repetitive, personal experience based[4] lyrics and spiritual imagery.

Wings Alleluia (2019) was recorded with Athens Cowboy Choir and features more classical choral elements with a dark and dreamy atmosphere.