NESYA has found her calling as an “exorcist musician”

In partnership with BandLab For the third year in a row, NESYA dropped a new album on the Friday of Halloween. “It’s become a tradition. My fanbase pretty much expects it now because my music is kind of spooky,” says the singer-songwriter, who recently moved from Los Angeles to Gilbert, Arizona. “Spooky” is certainly one way to describe NESYA’s shapeshifting sound, which can ricochet mid-track between frenetic hyperpop hooks and goth-coded atmospherics inspired by The Cure and Siouxsie And The Banshees. “I’d maybe call it post-apocalyptic punk-pop electronic darkwave,” suggests NESYA, who until a couple of years ago was working as a primary school teacher. Her latest Halloween LP, ‘K!LL NESYA’, lives up to her multi-genre description with a string of unsettling but infectious alt-pop gems. “I’ll kiss your rage with lips like knives,” she sings on the chugging new wave nugget ‘When The Vampire Tamed The Lion’. The album is being released through new LA-based label Double Down, but NESYA is a proudly DIY artist who taught herself to record and produce on BandLab, then built her following online. “When I was teaching, I was posting five times a day on five different accounts,” she rec...