Last month we were lucky enough to help premiere Tulsa-based songwriter Sierra Spirit’s debut single, “Ghost,” a spectral indie rock tune drawing influence from songwriters like Phoebe Bridgers while additionally drawing upon Spirit’s Otoe-Missouria and Keetoowah Cherokee ancestry. The song was also the first to be released from the musician’s forthcoming coin toss EP, which was produced by Aaron Taos and will be released via his Howdy Partner Music label.
Since then she’s also released the EP’s second single, “Televangelic,” which Taos and Spirit kick off their “Neighborhoods” session with before easing into “Ghost.” Set up outside Taos’ Howdy Partner Studios in Guilford, Connecticut, the pair play through both tracks as the setting sun provides mood lighting to play up both compositions’ dramatic lyrics. “‘Televangelic’ is about the developed god complex of an addict and how they’ll turn everything on you to justify their own behavior,” Spirit shares of the former, whereas the latter, as she previously mentioned, examines the feeling of “wasting time in a relationship you aren’t valued in and you know it—so you’d rather cover yourself up and hide than face the fact that you’re in something so one-sided.”
Watch the duo perform both songs below.
