Her Crooked Heart

Rachel Ries is the leader of Her Crooked Heart (a poet rock ensemble), founding director of Kith + Kin Chorus (a 65-voice uncommon choir in the Twin Cities), not sporty, born and mostly raised in the prairies of South Dakota, an unabashed hymn lover, a no-regrets college dropout, a lapsed bookworm, and a tiny home builder.

Ries, the songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer behind Her Crooked Heart, demonstrates immense vulnerability and multifaceted musical craftsmanship in delivering personal and profound musical soliloquies on love, leaving, and the life that follows after burning it all down. With To Love To Leave To Live (May 2019), Her Crooked Heart presents a debut record unique in form, made up of cyclical narratives and intertwining histories, each informing the next. The result is a transformative song cycle, led by a charismatic personality, wholly indifferent to expectations of genre and instrumentation.