Sister Gemini, recently recently dropped “One Room Apartment.” The project of Los Angeles-based songwriter Remy Jean, says: “The song is about attempting to rely on external comforts to pull you out when you’re in a funk,” shares Remy, “I start by calling my friends but when they aren’t available, I turn to casual sex to try to numb the loneliness. I wrote this song during the pandemic, when the world really did feel as small as my apartment at times. It’s a pretty vulnerable song for how upbeat it sounds, I love that contrast.”

“It took me a while to find my groove, in terms of who I wanted to work with and who actually understood the sound that I was going for,” Remy says. “It definitely passed through a lot of hands.” She ultimately turned to Sam Plecker (Father John Misty, Local Natives) as an engineer because he intrinsically grasped Remy’s vision for Sister Gemini. Much of Remy’s material came to life as assignments for a program called School of Song — an online masterclass taught by the likes of Phil Elverum (The Microphones, Mount Eerie) and Robin Pecknold (Fleet Foxes).

Remy Jean came into music as a byproduct of teenage discomfort. After being shunned by the cheerleaders at her high school, the Bay Area native found herself taking up guitar and associating with outsiders in the music room. “At first I was, like, ‘Oh my god, really? I’m going to hang out with these people?’ And then I was, like, ‘Wait, these people are me,’” she fondly recollects. Embracing her genuine interests for the first time, Remy began gigging in a Misfits cover band and dreaming of a move to Southern California. Now out of college and based in Los Angeles, the artist is able to fully concentrate on her music.

Remy describes Sister Gemini’s sound as, “Heavy music for people who like soft music, and vice versa.” Her lyricism grapples with the concepts of forgiving oneself — coming to terms with the reality that, even though you sometimes hurt others, it doesn’t make you a bad person. She often writes about mistakes, and isn’t afraid to paint herself as a malevolent character. “You’re always the villain in someone’s narrative,” she says. Remy is a self-described open book, and isn’t afraid of what people think after she’s put it all on the table.

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