(Indie Rock) Skylar Gudasz - Oleander - 2016, MP3, 320 kbps

Editorial Reviews
A native of Ashland, Va., Gudasz started playing flute at age 5. Her brother taught her to play guitar in elementary school, and she began learning piano on her own a few years later. With guitar and piano, I was too impatient with authority to listen long enough to learn how to properly play, so I worked my own way through them. Such individualism helped shape her distinctiveness as a songwriter from the outset. Gudasz studied theater and creative writing at the University of North Carolina, then stuck around in Chapel Hill and Durham post-college after connecting with some of the areas most promising young musicians. Early work with the likes of producer Jeff Crawford (Old Ceremony) and bassist Casey Toll (Mount Moriah) resulted in the 2011 EP Two Headed Monster and a follow-up of B-sides. Together, they served notice of a major new voice in the N.C. Triangles music community.