Pleasure.
Ahhmanda — With Desire (EP)
Genre: Psych Rock / Dream Pop / Alternative
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Her debut EP, With Desire, is about wanting something enough to finally take the leap - even when it feels uncertain, scary, or just plain hard. With Desire is about risk, transformation, and whatever waits for you on the other side of fear. It’s a psych-rock ride through late nights in LA - stories of loneliness and longing, morning hummingbirds, makeups and breakups, stumbling and laughing along the way.
Track by Track
- Holy Mountain – Explores loneliness but also the desire and hope that keep you going while living in Hollywood. A song about searching for meaning in the middle of creative pursuits.
- More or Less – Stream of consciousness while driving in Los Angeles - dealing with the bare minimum in relationships and realizing you deserve more. How settling can seep into every part of life until you finally decide to want more.
- Nice Living – Written while living at a certain chateau on Sunset Blvd, when nothing with the person you’re seeing seems to land right. Everything feels off, the red lights become more unsettling. Until an unexpected glance in the 1920s hotel lobby helps you change directions entirely (green-light).
- Desire – About wanting something badly enough to go for it - no fear, just desire. The title track and emotional heartbeat of the EP.
- Know I’m Not – Opening and giving in to creative freedom - allowing space for yearning, desire, and connection. Finally accepting the search for meaning will get messy, wild, but the process is the most beautiful part of the uphill pursuit.
❧ Ahhmanda is a Los Angeles-based songwriter and recording artist crafting a sound that feels both timeless and deeply personal. Drawing inspiration from the canyon's quiet moments and the ghosts of Laurel Canyon’s musical past. Blending psychedelic rock, folk, vintage soul, and dreamy indie pop, her debut record is a sonic experiment rooted in joy and instinct—each song a brushstroke on a growing canvas.
Echoes of artists like Charlotte Gainsbourg , Broadcast, Minnie Riperton, Love, and Wool thread through lush arrangements and intimate vocals, but the spirit is wholly her own.
❧ Thank you for going on the ride with me -- im exicted to learn, grow, and play with textures, live instrumentation, and turn late-night introspection into something tender and electric xx
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