Interlay

Snow covers your insides, the third EP from Interlay, wears a title in debt to the poetry of Sylvia Plath, utilizing language that expresses both soft beauty and graveyard imagery.

Billing themselves as post-riot grrrl, Interlay pack a comet full of feminine rage in blistering guitar rock. Interlay makes space for more anger in an often emotionally distant shoegaze music scene. Utilizing the creative possibilities of that sound and marrying it to influences like Hole and Sleater-Kinney.

With a sound that Chicago Reader says is “a perfect antidote to shoegaze’s somnambulant tendencies,” Alexandria Ortgiesen (vocals/lyrics/guitar) has been leading the band since its earliest incarnation in her native Wisconsin. Hauling the last Madison, WI lineup across state lines, the band moved to Chicago, a place whose deep history of Midwest alternative music and a thriving current DIY landscape was an ideal fit for the band.

The new EP, Ortgiesen’s third project under the Interlay moniker, sports a new, fully Chicago-based lineup, featuring Nate Dixon (bass) and Brent Favata (drums).

Interlay’s songwriting marks the importance of femme-led musical angst in spaces often male-dominated.