BLACK BELT EAGLE SCOUT
Black Belt Eagle Scout—the moniker under which Katherine Paul releases her music—makes fuzzy rock jams to fill your bedroom at night. And slow indie-folk ballads to angstily drive to. And echoing dreamy melodies to get lost to somewhere in the hazy Pacific Northwestern woods, because she’s from Portland. Swinomish, Iñupiaq, feminist, and queer, Paul draws on her unique experiences along with universal ones to write about anything from Standing Rock to good old-fashioned heartache, and by repeating a simple but perfect line like “I know you’re taken” over pining electric guitar riffs, she effortlessly creates anthems of desire. Give her a listen, and start anywhere; you really can’t go wrong.
—Alicia Devereaux, Executive Assistant
