Drawing influences from the likes of PC Music and Caroline Polachek as well as Bach, free jazz, and Alice Coltrane, Paknia delivers a forceful and dreamily thoughtful statement, combining a deep foundation of performance and composition with a pulsing, imaginative pop edge.

“I devoted the song to SOPHIE and Alice Coltrane, two artists that were in my heart and on my mind during the composition and who are a big part of the “you” I was so effortfully stepping towards at that time,” Jane explains of the new single. “They were my ‘solace’, the combo of their names! I really intended for a crying in the club vibe in this one…to make something so sensitive and also pulsing felt like an accomplishment, an alchemizing of the discomfort I was experiencing. Lonely, unsure, but ‘The dream’s enough to have by my side.’”

Borne out of Paknia’s longing to become a new version of herself, the conflict explored on ‘Solace’ runs throughout the EP: “I was seeing and moving towards my inspiration but not okay enough with myself to be in the process of growth,” she explains. “This led to a feeling that time was stretching out, so a month or two felt like ‘millions of years of longing…’”

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