“A new poet, an old soul, and a bright light on the next horizon of music”

- Carrie newcomer

Dandelioness is known for her radioactive falsetto, visceral performances, and the strange, hypnotic spell she casts on every room she steps into. Equal parts bohemian goth, cosmic diarist, and mischievous shadow-work guide, she turns rock clubs into listening rooms and listening rooms into portals.

Her musical life started early. As a child, Dandelioness learned to write songs under the watchful eye of family friend (and folk luminary) Carrie Newcomer and was later mentored by songwriter Krista Detor. Though she was raised on Americana, the first half of her life unfolded in New Delhi, India, where the droning ragas of the city seeped into her bones. Those echoes - ghostly, modal, and ancient - well up beneath the simple folk structures she favors, bending them toward the strange and otherworldly.

In her teens and early twenties, she wrote and recorded two albums of music before running off to London to study acting. There, she met producer Josh Haynes of Lounge Studios, and the two began quietly crafting new songs. She released these as the London Tapes EP under the name Dandelioness, returning to London in 2022 to record her debut full-length, Scorpio Ballads - a mascara-stained breakup odyssey of first love savaged by distance, set across apocalyptic American landscapes and mythic underworlds.

When Dandelioness landed in Taos, NM, the community welcomed her with rare warmth. She fell into the habit of performing constantly, sharpening her voice and stage presence in real time. She began touring in 2023, embarking on long, winding solo tours, months at a time, staying with friends, family, and at artist residencies - and somehow always managing to return home in one piece. Having shared stages and bills with artists including Sub Pop’s Marika Hackman and Desert Records’ Betty Benedeadly (Sheverb), she’s currently deep into an eight-month run of shows across the country. At this very moment she is somewhere out there, pushing the needle and testing her limits while writing her next record, Chamomile & Rust, to be recorded in January.

Onstage, Dandelioness growls, croons, or levitates in falsetto; she treats the act of performing like reading pages from her diary to a room full of strangers. The sound is a shimmering collision of fingerstyle folk guitar, infectious pop sensibilities, glittering vocoder, and the lingering southern drawl she inherited secondhand. Ethereal at first blush, her music hides a dark countercurrent: sex, death, kink, psychedelia, devils, and blush-inducing confessions wrapped in metaphor and delivered with a wink.

Her writing process is equally mercurial; sometimes beginning with a guitar progression, sometimes as melodies sung into the air while driving, sometimes arriving fully formed in a flash “like being flicked in the forehead by some god or angel.” Touring acts as a rock tumbler, polishing each song through repetition until it’s ready for the studio.

For Dandelioness, songs are “sweet little bottles of distilled darkness for people to sip and get drunk off of.” Her goal is nothing less than alchemy: to open portals inside every venue, to cast spells, to send people back to their cars with the ephemeral, heightened perception of a psychedelic comedown. She is the will-o-the-wisp leading listeners gently through their shadows; playful, vulnerable, haunted, and utterly alive.

EPK ♡