Allegra Krieger
Biography
Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine, Allegra Krieger’s second full-length album with Double Double Whammy, is a collection of 12 songs that pick at the fragile membrane between life and death. The titular ‘infinity machine,’ as Krieger puts it, “is an accumulation of interlocking forces that propel humanity forward through a persistent passage of time.”
Krieger’s previous album, I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane, hewed more closely to the domestic spaces of city and mind. Rolling Stoneregarded the album as “ten songs of heady philosophical meanderings packed with emotional dynamite,” and likened her “finely phrased lyrics” to those of “Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, [and] David Berman.” Krieger’s existential meditations remain on Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine, however her meandering melodies have taken on a stronger sense of direction. She narrates candidly and assertively; the full-band arrangements never overpower, only offer a robust platform on which Krieger’s voice reaches new heights. Krieger describes her newest work as “more outward looking, more questioning. These songs,” she says, “are obviously extremely personal. But they also sucked the whole world in.”
Video & Press
Allegra Krieger Finds Meaning in the Mundane on ‘Into Eternity’
New York singer-songwriter releases latest single from her upcoming album Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine BY SIMON VOZICK-LEVINSON [Rolling Stone] Allegra Krieger is the kind of songwriter who can invest even a simple walk down the block with whole worlds of spiraling thought. On “Into Eternity,” the latest single from her upcoming album Art of the Unseen Infinity […]
Allegra Krieger Dances on the Edge of Eternity
[Rolling Stone] After escaping a deadly apartment fire, the indie singer-songwriter levels up with a new album full of brilliant, intense songs NE NIGHT LAST summer, Allegra Krieger woke up to an apartment full of smoke. Unable to unlock the fire escape, she stumbled out of her fifth-floor walk-up unit in New York’s Chinatown and into an even smokier […]
Allegra Krieger :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
[Aquarium Drunkard] New York’s Allegra Krieger has had quite the year. The cosmic folk artist released her fourth studio album, I Keep My Feet On The Fragile Plane, in July via Double Double Whammy. Across its 10 tracks, Krieger sings measured soliloquies recounting her memories, observations, and curiosities straddling the mortal and divine. Finger-picked guitars float […]