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One to watch: Sarah Kinsley


The leftfield US singer-songwriter has turned grief into a life-affirming debut album that’s at once widescreen and intimate

Born in California, raised in Connecticut and Singapore and currently residing in New York, 24-year-old Sarah Kinsley makes deft alt-pop that combines musical and geographical experience-collecting. Having trained in classical piano and violin from childhood, she studied music theory at Columbia University and then began swerving left: self-recording and releasing around the turn of the decade; making light but intricate tracks influenced by the likes of St Vincent and Angel Olsen. Her newly released debut LP, Escaper, takes its title from a period of grief, mourning the death of a close friend.

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