The first songs went up without a name attached, recorded on a laptop in a room with a mattress against the window for insulation. They were not good, exactly, but they were unusual enough that people kept coming back.
What changed was not the production. It was a decision to stop hiding the seams — to leave in the takes where the voice cracks, the count-ins, the sound of a chair moving.
The record that resulted sounds like the demos, deliberately. Three labels asked her to re-record it. She did not.
