May 13 @ 8:00pmCHIRP Welcomes: SPELLLING

Lincoln Hall
2424 N Lincoln Avenue
Chicago , IL 60614
(773) 525-2501

18+

CHIRP Radio 107.1FM is excited to welcome SPELLLING to Lincoln Hall on Tuesday, May 13!

California-based artist Chrystia Cabral records fantasy-like, genre-blurring experimental pop under the appropriately magical pseudonym Spellling. Her self-released 2017 debut, Pantheon of Me, was a haunting set of dreamy, loop-based avant-folk. After the album received acclaim, she signed with Sacred Bones Records and released Mazy Fly, a more fleshed-out blend of dark synth pop, art pop, and hazy soul, in 2019. Her third album, 2021's The Turning Wheel, was even more expansive, with lusher orchestration and more progressive arrangements. She reworked songs from her first three albums for 2023's Spellling & the Mystery School.

Her fluid blend of hypnotic folk, ethereal darkwave, and abstract soul earned attention from the local press, and her debut full-length, also titled Pantheon of Me, appeared later in the year. The album immediately received attention from websites like Pitchfork and Afropunk. After signing with Sacred Bones, Spellling released the single "Hard to Please" in 2018, which was backed with a cover of Sparks' "My Other Voice." The following year, Sacred Bones released Spellling's sophomore record, Mazy Fly. The album featured "Hard to Please" as well as the single "Haunted Water." Her third long-player, The Turning Wheel, arrived in 2021. Self-produced and performed by a cast of 31 musicians, the album was divided into a more upbeat "Above" half and a more chilling, gothic "Below" half. Along with her touring band, Cabral re-recorded songs from her first three albums, documenting how they'd evolved through years of performances, for the 2023 release Spellling & the Mystery School.