Brooklyn’s Sister. today share “Hideaway”, the emotive first track from their second EP, “Something / Nothing”, due September 10th. An at first minimal, moving torch-song, “Hideaway” adds further layers as it progresses, allowing the lyrics to take centre-stage before percussion builds, guitars swell and strings loop to attain something entirely ethereal.
LISTEN TO “HIDEAWAY” HERE
Hannah Pruzinsky has the following to say about the themes behind the song:
“Hideaway is that space where someone can exist wholly. That secret place where you can be without a guise, without fear, you can never reveal too much. It’s a desire for the safety that intimacy holds”
Already creating buzz in their adopted hometown of NYC off the strength of material released over the last year, Sister. begun as a songwriting project for Hannah Pruzinsky and Ceci Sturman.
Hannah and Ceci had met as college roommates at St. John’s University in Queens but they didn’t start playing music together at first, that was to come later. The friendship was always creative – they bonded over exchanging poetry prompts while listening to M83 and Beach House their freshman year. The bond has only deepened over time and they’re still living together 7 years later.
Sister. happened by accident – during their senior year of college, Ceci wrote a song for a course assignment, and asked Hannah to sing it. The first time they performed the song in a church basement, they were then invited to perform it at a wedding happening later that month. They decided on the name after being asked over and over if they were sisters, the question posed due to their obvious closeness, rather than any significant physical similarities. Sister. is what happens when a band forms out of intimacy, when the music is born out of this emotional proximity.
Immediately before the New York lockdown, the group expanded to include friend and guitarist James Chrisman. The new band’s collaborative songwriting catapulted Sister. in a whole new direction, Chrisman adeptly complementing the duo’s acoustic songs with weird, sound-bending arrangements.
Pruzinsky, Sturman and Chrisman co-wrote “Soft Spot” – Sister.’s debut DIY EP, written and self-recorded entirely in quarantine in Brooklyn, NY. The EP was shaped over many FaceTime calls and files sent back and forth from two apartments across the borough, drawing inspiration from Lomelda, Adrianne Lenker, Alex G and others. “Soft Spot” continued true to Sister.’s origin – intimate and unpredictable.
In early 2021, Sister. tracked four songs at Greenpoint Recording Collective studio, illustrating their most dynamic stories to date. Their forthcoming second EP “Something / Nothing” was recorded alongside multi-instrumentalist and engineer Dylan McKinstry. S / N welcomes listeners into a new intimacy with the band – unrequited-self-sabotaging love, the ever evolving, ever confusing relationship to oneself, a fractured ankle, growing older.
