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SUMMARY:Orion Sun at Scala - Wednesday 5th March 2025 - 7:00 pm until 10:15
  pm 
DESCRIPTION:Orion Sun is in love with the process. “I feel like my most s
 hallow and my deepest self when I’m in the recording process\, because I
 ’m digging deep but to everyone in my life\, that’s all I can talk abo
 ut\,” she laughs.” And so after two years in creation mode\, it’s no
  surprise that she’s still coming to terms with what life looks like out
 side of the studio. “Not being there feels weird\, I feel weird! But I w
 ent to a flea market today for the first time\,” she says proudly.\n\nTh
 e child of two artists\, raised in South Jersey\, now based in Los Angeles
 \, Orion has cultivated a huge cult following with her singular lane of in
 toxicatingly intimate alt R&amp\;B and warmly analogue aesthetics. Feature
 d on the opener of Fred Again’s latest album USB\, having supported Dani
 el Caesar on his 2023 tour\, been sampled by Bryson Tiller and amassing al
 most 5 million monthly listeners on Spotify\, all as an independent artist
 \, the 28-year-old is primed and giddy to release her self-titled album Or
 ion. The name alone signifies the gradual build up to this moment\, she ex
 plains. “[Orion] is a hunter and that mentality\, you know\, you need pa
 tience when you’re out there. You could be there for days. Waiting for t
 hat perfect sound\, that perfect feeling.”\n\nFollowing three critically
  acclaimed projects of her own in A Collection of Fleeting Moments and Day
 dreams (2017)\, Hold Space For Me (2020) and Getaway (2022)\, though Orion
  is not her debut\, in many ways it feels like it. Sparked by a big\, deep
  heartbreak (unlike the times she thought she was heartbroken before)\, Or
 ion embarks on a journey of self-discovery\, grief and growth. “It [was]
  time to get to know me again as an adult\,” she says. And the result is
  a meditation on love in all of its raw\, tangled beauty and ugliness too.
  “I just wanted to be as bare bones emotionally as I possibly could beca
 use I was curious about what was on the other side of that.” Citing the 
 poem at the end of first single ‘Already Gone’ as a soul-baring moment
  she had to stand “ten toes down” on\, even when it felt revealing. On
  the track\, she laments ‘all my scars bleed\, I feel weak and ugly.’ 
 “I don’t feel that way now but the beautiful part of all this is that 
 it’s all fleeting\, even the good stuff. It’s kind of magic when you a
 re able to push past those emotions and capture them because I listen back
  now and I’m like ‘we made it!’”\n\nUpcoming single ‘Sweet’ si
 ts at the opposite end of that spectrum\, relishing in the addictive sacch
 arine highs and crashes of living in delusion\, with symptoms akin to a su
 gary binge. Self-produced front-to-back\, it’s hypnotic and oozing - hea
 dy with the haze of ‘what if’s. “It follows Mary Jane on the record\
 , and I wanted to put those two back to back because it's the part of the 
 album where I'm just falling into my vices\,” she unpacks. “Imagining 
 a world where you weren’t difficult\, I wasn’t difficult\, if it actua
 lly went well. Equating that mindless delusional vibe to overdosing on all
  the sweets\, mukbang style.” ‘Take My Eyes’ is a mournful yet hopef
 ul respite\, stripped back to just pure vocals and patient chords before s
 trings eventually soar. “I thought it was really important to have a mom
 ent of stillness sonically on the record because that was the only thing t
 hat really saved me in terms of\, not only moving on but being open to lov
 e again in all of the ways\,” Orion says. The ask on this one is simple\
 , to show her what you see through your eyes one last time. To be grateful
  for the smallest moments with someone\, like birdwatching or a passing br
 eeze or gazing at the stars\, that we only view from the past.
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