[Cover photo credit to Blue Yonki]

Austin, TX-based Alt-Pop singer/songwriter Sophia Warren has released her sophomore EP, Adesso, the second in a series of three EPs, out now via Tigris 33/UMG. Warren moves through an “anxious fog as she attempts to quiet her mind” on the single “Purple” and its matching visualizer, out now.

Adesso, meaning “now” in Italian, is a “declaration of independence” from Warren. Produced by Chris Coady (Beach House, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Slowdive), each track is its own portrait of Warren’s “innermost struggles, fears and hopes” as she seeks “a path towards healing and deeper self-discovery.”

She shares:

The EP asks, who am I without them? What do I truly want? These songs are about me peeling back the layers of uncertainty and learning to trust my own voice. It’s scary, it’s raw, but it’s real.

Adesso serves as the second installment in a three part series of EPs that trace Warren’s experiences of growing up.

The single “Purple,” sees Warren “confront a bout of anxiety as she learns to live alongside it rather than control it.”

Warren describes the track as “the sound of me facing my anxiety, of standing still in the chaos of my own mind and choosing to embrace every part of myself even when it wasn’t easy, even when I wanted to run from it.”

Its title comes from “the concoction of emotions blended throughout–red being fiery anger and self-destruction, blue being the quiet sadness and weight of the past and purple is where they meet.”