Today, Cuban American artist Victoria Sol releases EP1 on all major streaming platforms, a concise yet intensely personal debut that introduces her voice through three carefully crafted tracks. Originally shared on Bandcamp earlier this year, the project is now making its way onto wider platforms, offering a first glimpse into a practice that sits somewhere between music, sound art, and personal reflection.
Based between Miami and San Francisco, Sol approaches composition as a way of processing emotional states. Written and recorded independently during the pandemic while learning to produce in Ableton, the EP grew out of long hours of experimentation with sound and synthesis. As she explains, “Most of this EP is about processing grief and losing people I've loved my whole life.”
The record opens with self sabotaging sadness, a piece that drifts through melancholic textures and restrained rhythms, setting the tone for the rest of the project. Diggers den follows with a slightly more grounded pulse beneath Sol’s dreamlike vocal delivery. Reflecting on the track, she shared: “Diggers Den was the name of my first-ever guitar teacher's band when he was a teen in the late 70s. He told me this anecdote during a lesson shortly before Brandon passed away. I imagined the Diggers Den to be the graveyard that I've had to return to too many times over these past few years.”
The closing track, ascent, opens up the space even further, allowing the music to move toward something almost meditative. Across the three songs, lyrics rarely function as linear storytelling. Instead, they appear like fragments of thought, letting emotion surface through texture and atmosphere.
The project itself emerged from a deeply personal and solitary creative process. “I was making music alone in my room for so long, and this EP is a product of experimenting with tools, toys and sounds and giving myself permission to create for the first time in my life,” Sol says. “Big thank you to Baylor for pressing me to release this music for years, even when I made so many excuses about why I wasn't ready.” With a debut album already in development, moving toward a more guitar-driven progressive folk direction, EP1 feels like the beginning of an evolving artistic language.