Photo by Sophia Grouev

“I don’t know what’s for sure / Do you have my cure? / Tell me is there something that I should look for,” ponders in the opening moments of “slow burn”, the latest preview from the multi-instrumentalist’s upcoming EP, rest. Self-care meditative properties have always played an important part in the spiritual sound growing from the Montreal-based artist’s music, but here it feels even more so necessary as the listen unfolds from a slow-moving gestation of breath and stillness into a kindling of natural effects mirroring the world around her. “But I’m feeling like a small bird / While I’m tending to this slow burn,” she sings, steadying her feet before peeking back into the light.

Thanya Iyer’s rest will be released August 24th on Topshelf Records.