With an innate sense of melody, her voice disarms the listener with stark, vulnerable lyricism and resonant warmth. As a performer, she places her voice at the forefront of ephemeral arrangements for acoustic guitar and piano, offering a wide view into an expansive sonic world, drawing from the sincerity and structures of American folk traditions and the hypnotizing qualities of dream pop.
Composed methodically for minimalism, yet lustrous and dense in layers of piano, guitar, and synth, her recorded songs position euphoria as softly restrained, and beauty as the line where melancholy meets with life-affirming hope.
On her 2024 debut single ‘Country Of Your Mind’, produced by Randall Dunn, Lyndsay Knecht of Red Hot Org wrote, “In this first drop by Cassandra Croft under her solo artist name, we meet a fully inhabited performer with an obviously exacting ear. Croft looms ominous as a songwriter just as her delivery hits the listener straight on with the unforgettable lines: ‘Hold the year / As a smile / Cast down / By a star / In revolt.’”
Croft’s vocals first appeared in 2020 on compilation by Grouper. She has recorded with contemporary experimental icons Julianna Barwick, Rachika Nayar, Nina Keith, Brent Arnold, Ben Greenberg, and many others. Her vocal work was featured on the critically acclaimed TRANSA album via Red Hot Org, and she has performed at Knockdown Center, NYC, opening for Alessandro Cortini. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, where she deepened her lyrical studies on the natural world, with support from the National Science Foundation. She is presently touring North America.