Hailing from the Chicagoland area and currently based in South Bend, Indiana, queer father’s intimately personal music is an exploration of a sensitive mind. With influences ranging from Fiona Apple to Bulgarian choral music, their sound is ever-changing and always looking to blur boundaries between genres, accompanied by rich, diary-like lyrics. A classically trained vocalist, queer father merges their wide vocal range with emotional intensity and a sense of theater to deliver a uniquely intimate and, at times -- a frightening style of performance both on the stage and on record.


discography

November 2020: Trauma Queen

May 2021: desert sunlight (single)

December 2021: The Tale of the Convenience Store (single)

March 2022: believe (single)

June 2022: hope less

July 2023: believe (river version) (single)

April 2024: Dear John (single)

 Trauma Queen was the first album I ever released. I quite honestly had no clue what I was doing. I was essentially recording my little dark and angry punk songs in my apartment to survive, as I was going through an extremely difficult time in my life involving breakups, death, and some extreme mental instability. Nonetheless, I'm very proud of it for the sole fact that I managed to release something into the world that could hopefully make someone feel less alone in their thoughts and emotions. 

hope less was the second album and was made to push myself outside my comfort zone in all aspects. I was deeply obsessed with albums by acts such as Nico, Broadcast, and Suicide at the time and wanted to emulate the vibe of dark analog music, again in my tiny little apartment. The songs were inspired by yet another rough patch in my life in 2021, mapping out a journey to self-acceptance and finding validation in my existence without needing it to come from some external source, which would typically be some gross man that I placed on a pedestal. 

That leads us to today, currently working on a third album. Who knows what will come...