Doe Paoro streams her upcoming LP After exclusively at Best Fit

After draws a line in the sand, effectively closing the door on an unpleasant chapter in Paoro’s life but providing a means to express those events and move on. Echoing her warnings on the trappings of the past in the track “Nostalgia”, Paoro says, “The record is a meditation on the past but ultimately arrives at the conclusion that it’s futile to dwell and true peace lies in accepting where you are now and working from there.”

Thinking of herself as “an eternal student”, Paoro injects an intellectualism into her pop music; a canny balance between how many view pop music as superficial and Paoro’s intent for her brand of pop: “I always imagine the higher purpose of music as being comforting and awakening. I think this record has the possibility to offer that connection”.

Paoro’s skill in arrangement is on full display on After, lighting on a wide array of styles yet keeping them all firmly under the pop umbrella. Influenced by Tibetan opera, Nina Simone, and D’Angelo, among others, Paoro and producers BJ Burton and Sean Carey “really strove to make something that felt future and ancient at the same time”, weaving her musical DNA across centuries and genres into a tantalisingly uncategorisable whole.

After is out 25 September courtesy of Anti- Records. Stream the album below.