Anterra is a compulsive over-achiever. As if a degree in Physics, professional work on NASA aerospace initiatives, teaching herself Python leading to a successful career in Machine Learning, or time spent touring as a violinist with one of the oldest symphonies in Sweden wasn’t enough — her truest self wanted to write music.

And like all her other endeavors, Anterra brought her tenacity and a fierce dedication to perfection and excellence to music, which is evident in both the quality and reception of her first release.

A self-taught and distinctive guitarist, Anterra brought an exceptionally tuned ear, a playful exploratory attitude, and a mind predisposed to mathematical & musical complexity to the instrument, that would shape her intricate and unique melodic compositions. She soon inherited her late mother’s 1931 Gibson L-00, which would become a lifelong songwriting companion.

Anterra’s music is distinguished by its captivating vocal arrangements, harmonic richness, and unique through-composed song structures. She effortlessly traverses between the emotional intimacy of folk music and the obsessive intricacy of progressive art-pop. Interlacing this duality with textured, ethereal, haunting, and at at times psychedelic instrumentation, Anterra has defined a sound unto her own.

A more immersive exploration of her music reveals a thoughtfulness and nuance to her lyricism and poetry that is deeply moving. It reveals a vulnerability she does not otherwise show to the world. Heavy with themes of self-doubt, facing ones own flaws, and transformation, Anterra’s music is an offering of catharsis to herself as much as to others. With a delicate poetic hand, Anterra weaves those personal themes through a tapestry of natural imagery and metaphysical metaphor.

With an intense, vibrato-affected and evocative low end often compared to Florence & The Machine, paired with a soaring purity of extreme falsetto, Anterra’s vocal range alone is attention-grabbing. But it’s not just the power of her vocals that draw attention; Anterra offers a listeners a genuinely moving experience through her voice and songs. She’s a celebrated and prolific live performer, having toured and played extensively in the first two years since her debut single release.

On her debut record, Anterra partnered with Cale Hawkins [production] and Peter Stone [lead guitar] to bring the ethereal, dreamy and haunting soundscape of her vision to life.

If her list of achievements is any indication, Anterra has never shied away from that which is difficult. Finding notoriously elusive success as a musician may be hard, but that’s precisely what appeals to Anterra. If anyone could do it, she could.