Stream: Evangeline, ‘Hermione’

Kevin Bronson on May 3rd, 2023

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Singer-songwriter and all-around creative Eva B. Ross debuted her new music persona Evangeline last summer. Almost year later, on May 19, she’ll drop her first EP, “Fuzzy.”

(Also to come: her acting debut, in the film “Winter Spring Summer or Fall,” starring Jenna Ortega and Percy Hynes White and also featuring Evangeline’s music and performances.)

“Fuzzy,” made with co-producer Dillion Casey and co-producer/co-writer David Marinelli, finds Evangeline meting out sharp, if breathy, garage-pop confessionals — heavy stuff with a droll touch. Her latest single, “Hermione,” was inspired by an antagonist. And there’s whistling.

“This song was an imagined response to an internet troll. I noticed an older man in my comments who would regularly chime in to critiquing my playing and he always called me Hermione,” she says. “I found it really funny and it made me think, ‘What if what he doesn’t know is, that’s exactly my kink?’ I think deep down the song is about the idea that if ‘hurt people, hurt people’ — would matching their energy with radical understanding end the cycle?”

||| Stream: “Herminone”