Effi makes music the way some creatures navigate – by sound, in the dark, with complete confidence in what she's hearing. Her grandfather sang opera in Greece; her mother inherited his voice and brought it to the U.S. along with a career in science. Effi got the voice and an obsession she can't shake - that music is both science and something beyond it, a repeating act of reaching toward beauty that we somehow keep finding and losing and finding again.

A Boston-based songwriter who trained as a chemist and makes music by feel rather than by what's current, she builds art-rock that pulls from Greek rembetiko and its vocal traditions, from Zeppelin and classic soul, without much interest in whether any of that is what you're supposed to be doing right now. She treats each song as its own discrete problem to solve, and none of them end up sounding alike.