Olive Klug

Equal parts vulnerable and powerful, ebullient and heartbreaking, gentle and cynical, Olive Klug refuses to be put in a box. Working out who you are in front of an ever-growing audience is no small task, but one the Portland-bred, Nashville-based songwriter is always up for.

Their debut LP ranges from a playful Americana romp about “watching all the rules disintegrate” to folk-punk anthem “Coming of Age”, which somehow manages to reference both pop singer Taylor Swift and existential philosopher Kierkegaard in one song, to “Parched”’s haunting modern ballad about a doomed relationship, to an indie rock closer about learning to take up space as a person with a marginalized identity. Through this no-holds-barred documentation of the struggles of their early adulthood, Klug embraces all their inner contradictions with reckless abandon.