Eartheater

Alexandra Drewchin operates under the solo alias Eartheater from her New York base, shaping intricate, oneiric compositions that fuse acoustic instruments with aggressive digital processing and her own densely layered vocals spanning three octaves. Both Metalepsis and RIP Chrysalis, the project's opening two albums, surfaced in 2015 and drew widespread critical praise. Releases such as IRISIRI in 2018 steered the project toward harsher, club-oriented terrain, while the more expansive and acoustic Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin followed in 2020. Powders, issued in 2023, folded additional pop and metal influences into the sound.

Before issuing material as Eartheater, Drewchin handled vocals and electronics in Guardian Alien, the expansive psychedelic ensemble launched by drummer Greg Fox. Eartheater's earliest recording, the abstract indie rock single "Bird's Eye," appeared on Custom Made Music in 2013. That track merely prefaced subsequent work that braided folk traditions, classical structures, noise, fluid ambient passages, and hip-hop elements into dense yet fragile collage pieces. Chicago label Hausu Mountain released the debut album Metalepsis in early 2015, followed later the same year by its companion RIP Chrysalis. Both earned acclaim, notably from FACT Magazine, which ranked RIP Chrysalis among its ten favorite albums of the year.

Drewchin spent ensuing years developing fresh material, collaborating with performance art duo FlucT, and appearing in the opera The Fool in February 2017, while also contributing two guest spots to Show Me the Body's Corpus I mixtape. Eartheater joined Bill Kouligas' Pan roster in 2018 and delivered the third album IRISIRI, whose fractured electronic rhythms and lyrics confronting rape culture and claustrophobia incorporated appearances from Moor Mother and Odwalla1221. The 2019 mixtape Trinity arrived next, featuring production from experimental club artists including AceMo and Color Plus. Angel Lust, an ethereal string collaboration with New York duo LEYA, closed out the year. Eartheater's fourth album, Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin, extended this path with further LEYA contributions and chamber arrangements by Ensemble de Cámara CSMA.

November 2022 brought a deluxe edition of the 2019 Trinity mixtape, appending seven new tracks that included remixes by COUCOU CHLOE, Sammy, and others alongside a cut featuring Dillinger Escape Plan. Powders, which touched on trip-hop and synth pop while presenting an acoustic cover of System of a Down's "Chop Suey," arrived in 2023.