Cyrena Wages

Cyrena Wages fell in love with music on the country backroads between Millington & Shelby Forest, two small towns north of Memphis. Her father, the hometown judge, drove her to school each day in a '67 gold Cadillac with the license plate “ROBN HD," an homage to the underdog ideology, & a conceptual through line of her debut album, Vanity Project (Matt Ross-Spang). Wages' Sophomore album, Miss Melancholia, produced by Johnny Black, is slated for 10/8. “I didn’t go in to make this new record feeling unheard or carrying unarticulated pain. If Vanity Project was a wound of truth telling, this album is a scar of swagger, boundaries, levity, fun, & a sense of humor that I lost touch with for a long time." This album may differ sonically (& emotionally) from Wages’ debut, but the delicately punk narrative remains intact: a woman raised in North Shelby County, relishing in the witticisms of the South, while fighting like hell to shake it’s “Bible Belt beauty pageant” ways.