Anika Pyle is a queer, genderqueer singer-songwriter, experimental performer, and spoken word poet exploring the dialectic of the human experience–joy in one hand, sorrow in the other. Their music sounds like if Phil Elverum, Rupi Kaur, and Sharon Van Etten were in a gay triad. Pyle grew up on a cattle ranch in the Colorado prairie but promptly left the West at 17 for New York City, nurturing a career out of the Brooklyn punk and indie scene with their bands Chumped and Katie Ellen. In 2022, they put our their first LP – Wild River – a mix of song and spoken word exploring the grief of losing their father to overdose and grappling with intergenerational trauma. Robin Hilton of NPR said about Wild River, “some of what she says about failure should be chiseled in stone and put on display somewhere.” They have toured the US, Europe, and Canada, sharing stages with artists like Jeff Rosenstock, Bartees Strange, Pup, Laura Stevenson, The Hold Steady, and Slaughter Beach, Dog. They have written and sang for film and television, including Cartoon Network’s Craig of the Creek and the 2017 Alex Ross Perry film Her Smell, starring Elizabeth Moss. Pyle has collaborated with producers like The Range (Domino Records) and Jonathan Benedict (Rihanna, Azealia Banks, Yoko Ono). Their work has been featured and praised by NPR, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, New York Magazine, Billboard, SPIN and more. They split their time between Fort Collins, Colorado and Queens, NY.