Founded in August 2024, Across Phoenix is an art rock / experimental pop duo out of New Orleans. Emma Lee is on guitar and vocals, with Evan Michell on drums.
As a band, they’re eclectic and delicate and hard to pin down. They're hiding funky glittery things for you to find between layers of storm-cloudy shoegaze sound: something like Phantogram, Sweet Trip, Portishead, Wolf Alice, PJ Harvey and Warpaint, like crawling up the stairs to find a cluster of painted stars spinning on the fuzzy carpet of your bedroom.
They haven’t stopped moving forward since their debut in 2025, skipping like a tiny comet between packed bars and major festivals in and out of NOLA: Saturn Bar, Gasa Gasa, Funk Fest, FQF Fest, Algiers Bonfire Fest, Pom Pom Palooza Fest. Their debut EP, written and produced by Lee with recording and co-production from Michell, was spotlighted in Antigravity Magazine’s October 2025 issue. Their second release, “Dreaming Opaline” earned national/international radio plays, magazine recognition and exceptional praise from critics.
Put on a blindfold and let them make your world seem so, so small, (or maybe you got really really reeeeally big). Suddenly, you’re balancing on the earth like a little blue ball, doing dizzy dances while their opalescent dreams whirl around your head.
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WRITTEN by JO DEVEREAUX