[Cover photo credit to Luda Ronky]

Twin sister Folk Pop duo Lullanas, made up of Atisha and Nishita Lulla, have released their full-length debut album, Pretty Lies & Time Machines.

Co-produced with Keith Goodwin (Good Old War), the album features songs about the “persistently transformative nature of relationships, from the healing to the heartbreaking.” They collaborated with several artists on the album’s songwriting, including Katelyn Tarver, Tommy Ashby, Marc Scibilia, and more.

Atisha shares about the album:

We kept ASMR in mind while making our album: soothing sounds, whispery vocals, full words pronounced. We wanted our listeners to feel like they were in the room with us. The words are heavy, but it doesn’t have to feel that way.

The Indian American twin sisters says that they work “synergistically”: Atisha is more of the lyricist who pulls from Indie Folk Rock, while Nishita, who’s more into Country Pop, takes lead on melodies and guitar. Raised in the outskirts of Philadelphia, the pair DIY’d their way into music while visiting their grandmother in Mumbai.

In 2020, Lullanas released their debut EP, Before Everything Got Real, produced by Peter Katis (The National, The Paper Kites). Between gigs alongside Maggie Rose, Darlingside, and Wild Rivers, they toured with Peter Bradley Adams and Australian Indie Folk trio Sons of the East.