Bio + Press

Kentucky-born, Cincinnati-based Brianna Kelly (she/they) creates hushed, intimate songs and sweeping, reverb-soaked, patient soundscapes, as a form of solace and meaning-making from life’s harsh and joyful absurdity. While writing and playing in numerous award-nominated Cincinnati projects over the past decade such as Soften, A Delicate Motor, Strobobean, and Kim Taylor, Brianna is working toward her debut full-length solo record after releasing two EP’s and a handful of homemade recordings over the years.

In addition to music, she creates evocative, nearly confessional illustrations rooted in the liturgical incarnation tradition exploring the synthesis of the natural world, sacraments, struggle, scripture, queerness, embodied theology, mysticism, dreams, and liberation for all.

“Her thick, echoing guitar wraps around her meditative voice like grass spreading across the roots of trees.”

- Marc Masters, Bandcamp/Pitchfork 

“…darkly beautiful, lonely guitar painting patterns like flares across the night sky. Kelly’s vocals, when they arrive, feel indistinct and translucent, swirling around on currents invisible to the human eye.”  

-Liam Doyle, Various Small Flames

“There’s an almost symphonic quality to the song arrangements, largely eschewing cookie-cutter verse/chorus repetition to create a dreamy, stream-of-conscious slipstream of sound, anchored by Kelly’s enthralling vocals and melodies, which are transcendentally soulful.”

-Mike Breen, Cincinnati CityBeat