“Lana is a character,” Demellza clarifies. “I’m just… me. But the me that doesn’t text anyone back for three days.”
“Next year. Maybe.”
Her debut EP, Saltburn , dropped in April on the tiny independent label Glass Wax. No PR blitz. No radio plug. Just seven tracks of lo-fi electronics, warped cello samples, and that voice. The lead single, “Heavy Hand,” started as a bedroom recording on a broken Tascam 414. By June, it had been streamed over 400,000 times—a viral drip, not a flood. 2013 candice demellza
By Lydia Cross | September 2013
“People keep calling it ‘bedroom pop,’” she says, scrunching her nose. “But my bedroom had mold and a roommate who vacuumed at 2 a.m. It’s not a vibe. It’s a survival sound.” “Lana is a character,” Demellza clarifies