Sijya shares Leather & Brass EP preview, "Do I Know"

Referencing Sijya’s subconscious inclination toward the language of electric guitars, despite working primarily with electronic tools, she says: “Funnily enough, people have often referred to parts in my music as guitar sounds and riffs. I guess I’ve always been drawn to electric guitars and I’m maybe always trying to make that sound with my synths.”

“Finishing this was a long process. Painful. Not just in the way that it is painful to make anything, because it is. Ideas are exciting, but you get over them very fast. Then you trudge along until there’s another spark,” Sijya says of the forthcoming release.

“Before this EP, I feel like I was messing about. I didn’t think a career in music was possible. I had been circling around music for a long time and making album art as a graphic designer, but ‘Young Hate’ was my first attempt of ‘doing’ any music at all. Now, with this second EP, I feel like I have become a musician. I am now doing this with intention. This EP feels like beginning of me trying to find a sound.”