Corrina Repp

Singer/songwriter Corrina Repp first surfaced in Portland, Oregon’s music community toward the end of the 1990s, where her sparse and delicate compositions centered on electric guitar soon drew notice. Following the 2006 release of her fourth album, The Absent and the Distant, she set solo work aside to concentrate on the indie-rock band Tu Fawning, active from 2007 to 2012, before returning to her own catalog with The Pattern of Electricity in 2015. She has also taken on acting assignments in independent films and on television, among them a recurring part in IFC’s Portlandia.

After a childhood of repeated moves, Repp established herself in the Pacific Northwest and entered music through a part-time retail position. Selling band merchandise online brought her into contact with the Decemberists, whose members were struck by her material and urged Hush Records to sign her. The label issued her debut, A Boat Called Hope, in 1998; the CD-R EP The Other of Mud appeared the following year. She next delivered I Take on Your Days in 2001 and It’s Only the Future in 2004, both on Hush. Tours alongside the Decemberists, M. Ward, and Cat Power preceded the 2006 release of The Absent and the Distant on Mark Kozelek’s Caldo Verde imprint.

Corrina Repp and Joe Haege formed Tu Fawning with Toussaint Perrault and Liza Reitz in 2007, pausing her solo activity. The City Slang label issued the group’s albums Hearts on Hold in 2010 and A Monument in 2012, after which the quartet toured extensively across the United States and Europe. Once Tu Fawning dissolved in late 2012, Repp accepted roles in several low-budget independent films and appeared in multiple episodes of the Portland-based sketch-comedy series Portlandia. Her fifth long-player, The Pattern of Electricity, arrived on Caldo Verde in 2015. Two years later she issued How a Fantasy Will Kill Us All, a joint project of sonaBLAST! and Jealous Butcher Records.