Quiet Light
Self-produced Texas dream-pop built from voice, synths and found fragments
Based in Austin, United States
Riya Mahesh layers close, lightly processed vocals over gliding synths, soft drum patterns, acoustic traces, drones and scattered voice notes. Songs frequently accelerate, pitch-shift or dissolve mid-thought, so the live set should feel intimate but unstable rather than conventionally singer-songwriter.
More about Quiet Light
Mahesh came through Austin's band scene before balancing Quiet Light with medical school on the East Coast. Her run of self-produced releases led to True Panther, where Blue Angel Sparkling Silver 2 tightened her fragmentary electronic folk into concise pop without removing its rough edits and overheard details.
Playing
- 2026-11-06 · Pitchfork Avant-Garde · POPUP! · POPUP!
Labels
Start here
- Blue Angel Sparkling Silver 2 (2026) · True Panther Records
Her clearest meeting point between dreamscape production and direct pop writing - Berlin (2026) · True Panther Records
A bright cathartic chorus framed by sparse electronic detail - Pure Hearts (2025)
A self-produced map of the project before True Panther
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