Lorelei K

Lorelei K, aka Dahlia Knowles, is a singer-songwriter who works in a hybrid style that merges relatively melodic and shaded darkwave tones with electronic music that comes with an experimental edge. This was especially true in her early work where she explored a variety of textures that range from dissonant, fractured songs to pop ballads with strong beats. She took a stylistic leap on 2022's Swimming Pool Eternity, adopting an expansive approach and developing a broad, cavernous sound that gives her instruments space to grow and build up waves of swelling synths and guitars bursting into a big chorus effect. She scaled back some of her sonic tinkering as a result of that shift, but working on a larger canvas also gave her the chance to create music with deeper emotional resonance.