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Aphra is a whirlwind of carefully crafted, vocally decorated soundscapes, pop songs infused with texture and vibrancy. It’s also a place for Way to flex her muscles as a producer and vocalist. Her debut EP, Sadness is a Gesture, which will release late spring of 2016, is a wrought blend of electro soul with pop sensibility. As a whole, the EP is a series of vignettes, agonizingly chilling and emotional.“Don’t be fooled. Aphra is anything but a downer. Way uses her music as a means of quiet catharsis, but it’s transformative.” — WXPN, The Key. 

Conceived in 2013, Aphra is the experimental-soul-pop project of singer and producer REBECCA WAY. In late 2013 Way started experimenting with digital synths to express more nuanced ideas she had about a group of songs she held dear to her heart. She craved the instrumentation itself to reflect the mood and weight of each individual song and wanted to produce them in a way that would be unrestrained by genre.