Liela Moss

With the Duke Spirit, collaborators like UNKLE, and on her own, Liela Moss is a powerful and versatile singer. Her ethereal upper register and smoky lower tones work equally well with bluesy rock, electronic music, dream pop, or lush, string-laden ballads. She combined all of these on solo albums including 2020's Who the Power and 2023's Internal Working Model, both of which used moody electro-rock to express pressing concerns like climate change and the need for community. During her teenage years, Moss was a die-hard music fan -- particularly of the riot grrrl movement -- ...