Sigra is a dilettante and likes it that way. 

Dubbed “Indefatigable” and “otherworldly” by Tone Madison, Sigra’s music, often dealing with the nuances of identity and interpersonal relationships, is marked by her ethereal vocals and deft lyricism.
Between studying opera and classical voice for more than a decade and moonlighting as a bassist in a couple punk rock acts, she is at her most comfortable and most effective when straddling multiple genres, aesthetics, perspectives. 
Her most recent self released EP, 2023's "Scavenger", is a collection of five songs written over the course of the past five odd years, running the gamut of emotion, from the pensive, delicate closer and lead single “April Achingly Begins”, to the boiling, galloping titular track “Scavenger”, and the brooding, cinematic “Saving Worms”. 
Produced specifically with shoe string budget, solo touring in mind, “Scavenger” goes to prove how much Sigra can do with minimal instrumentation- little more than a 33 key synth and an upright bass hold down the firmament of the album, with brushes of atmospheric pads and a couple borrowed talents (including fellow MQBS band member Quintin Bovre on guitar) rounding out the studio versions of songs built for hearing live.
Aside from music, she is an essayist and poet, publishing her first collection of work, 1-800-TRUTH via Salon des Refuse last year, and the sole owner/operator of 27 Bones, an alternative jewelry house.
She likes bugs. 
Instagram, Twitter, TikTok: @ sirsigra 
www.sirsigra.com

New Single “April Achingly Begins”

Out on all streaming 8/25

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Press

  • These five songs are gems of vulnerability set in frameworks of heightened ornament. But not too much ornament. Sigra has a lot to work with—vocals that spiral across octaves, an array of bowed and plucked stringed instruments, software production techniques, synths, a musical perspective from which opera, hyperpop, and chunky art-rock don’t seem so far apart. Scavenger, her second EP as a solo artist, pares it down to upright bass, voice, keys, and not much else.

    In her lyrics, Sigra constantly invites us to look behind her own curtain of classical-goth-pop artifice. “I’m always raising far more questions than I can answer,” goes the first line of opening track “Alexander.” Sigra delivers this line with an assured and stately voice, setting up a contrast that powers the whole EP. (She’s also funny: “I’d been too preoccupied with being artfully woeful.”) Even under the plucky menace of “Scavenger” and “Saving Worms,” Sigra unpacks tenderness, doubt, and wanderlust. “April Achingly Begins,” a series of reflections set amid the whirlwind social life of Madison twentysomethings (no, you’re getting emotional at a song that name-checks the Rotunda Café), concludes the EP and elevates it to a rare level of incisive self-awareness. —Scott Gordon

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