TEHYA releases "catch // release" on Neon Gold Records / Futures ✦

TEHYA IS GOING TO MAKE YOU FEEL EVERY SINGLE THING  AND YOU WILL THANK HER FOR IT: ANNOUNCES A CHANGEABLE FEAST EP TO BE RELEASED ON AUGUST 14 (pre-save) SHARES “CATCH//RELEASE” VIA NEON GOLD / FUTURES TODAY HERE + MUSIC VIDEO (dir. BRANDON MOSQUERA) HERE

The Pacific Northwest's exciting rising star TEHYA releases "catch//release" via Neon Gold Records / Futures, and it's the most honest song about a toxic relationship you'll hear all year. She’s announcing her next project, the 5-track a changeable feast EP, to be released on August 14th. Besides creating her music, TEHYA can be found in a starring role in Love Spells’ video for his latest song “Keep It To Yourself”.  TEHYA describes “catch//release”: “the turbulence of realizing someone you love is holding you back, while still being so attached and not understanding how to let go despite the toxicity. analogizes the relationship to that of a fish on a hook (both partners interchangeably being the fish) “look straight in its eyes” highlighting the acknowledgment of life behind them, knowing you’re hurting this living thing, becoming attached to that humanization.” It's one of the most quietly devastating pieces of songwriting in recent memory, and it arrives wrapped in the kind of effortless, genre-fluid production that makes TEHYA genuinely unlike anyone else working right now. "oooo you hooked me good / am I doing this right? / looked straight in its eyes / now I'm too attached too attached to / catch and release" Growing up in the Pacific Northwest at the intersection of her Cherokee, Filipino, and Scotch-Irish roots, TEHYA was shaped by music from birth; her father is a local legend funk drummer, and she forged herself a fiercely self-made path, as well. She left home at 16, found her people in Seattle's Capitol Hill underground rap scene, and taught herself Pro Tools and FL Studio by sitting in on sessions until someone handed her the keys. She plays guitar, keys, and drums. She writes 100% of her own toplines and lyrics. She is, in the most literal sense, self-made. She is also, for context, already a Neon Gold Records artist, the label that launched Charli XCX, Tove Lo, MARINA, and Christine and the Queens. She has graced the cover of NME. She has landed on the cover of Spotify's Fresh Finds. Earlier releases include the acclaimed "the patriot" a song that began as a meditation on Indigenous visibility and became, in the current climate, something far larger, and earlier songs such as "spoons for sweets," and "trap door." "catch//release" is the further opening of her new era.  https://www.instagram.com/oktehya/ https://neon.gold/ https://futures.music/