i’m kennie. i’m also siichaq.

i make music.

if you want to book a show with me, send a little email on over and i will check it out. thanks :)

email me

some info about me

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(sea-check) kennie mason grew up in florida. her need to write music comes mainly from somewhere else in her dna: as part Inuit, that aspect of her identity was not much of a presence, rather a confounding ingredient in her life in the south.

like the incurable ringing of tinnitus inside the skull, an alien feeling has burrowed in her psyche.

at 12 years old, mason was placed in a wilderness therapy program for six weeks, then a theraputic boarding school.

as a result of these treatments, it always feels like vulnerability will be met with punishment. as siichaq, which is mason’s Iniupiaq name, there are no such consequences for spilling her guts for the world to see.

across siichaq’s latest record, catcher, we get an internal interrogation through a slew of sonic perspectives: noise rock sits comfortably next to lush string arrangements; golden two-tone harmonies sing about the pleasures of being alone, and bare bones banjo share equal space.

i’m online

*instagram*

*youtube*

*tiktok*

*bandcamp*

  • "siichaq" (i was listed under albums of the week but that was all they said cuz it was a list. cool that stereogum said my name tho)

    —stereogum

  • "siichaq’s latest effort finds her evoking a swirling range of styles and tones, offering glimpses of spectral intimacy before enveloping the listener in murky streaks of grunge, shoegaze, and noise rock. lush strings and crystalline harmonies can presage blown-out textural turns, and even the most serene moments carry a bleary, washed-out undercurrent,"

    —under the radar

  • "there’s a charged hush before a scream. that tension pulses through every crack and hiss of siichaq’s sophomore album, catcher—a slow-burning, grunge-tinged mosaic of introspection, ephemeral beauty, and raw edge,"

    —mundane

  • "this week’s playlist features artists diverse in genre but singular in sound, including die spitz, wombo, sophia stel, voyeur, siichaq, and more,"

    —alternative press

  • Siichaq’s style in sound brought to life by a web of wildly talented artists, yet rooted wholeheartedly in its own dreamy world, painted with brush strokes that seem so effortlessly placed, as it often happens when something’s created from a place of necessity.

    —femmusic