.IndyYelich chatted with claire_ifying on crafting her sound for a new age, how New York is a central figure in her imagination, and the impact of older sister Lorde's success on her career. ⬇️
When Indy Yelich imagines her life, it’s here: in New York City, in an East Village bar/coffee shop/bookstore hybrid, reading or talking about art, meeting strangers and exchanging novels. The 24-year-old singer-songwriter and poet, younger sister to pop icon Lorde, is the latest in a long line of artists to become intoxicated with New York through its literary heroines: Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O’Hara. She tried to love Joan Didion, “but I’m more of an Eve Babitz girl.
New York is a central figure in Indy’s imagination; she spent the last several months in her hometown of Auckland, New Zealand, with her family, and talked inof how much she missed the city as she prepared to release her first single, “Threads.” She thinks of those literary presences, and it still feels strangely like the same city, despite the massive shifts it has undergone since the ‘80s. She first moved here a few years ago, after first attempting an acting career in L.A.
But songwriting was one of Indy’s earliest joys. “I've been a songwriter since I was like six,” she says. “So it just so happened that my sister is a star.” It tracks that the Yelich-O’Connor family would birth more than one artist. Matriarch Sonja Yelich is an award-winning poet who toward art as a source of comfort over television. Vic O’Connor brought in his singing voice and affinity for music, introducing their kids to James Taylor and Cat Stevens.
“I've always really loved, I wouldn't say attention, but this job that entails talking to people,” she says. “I love connecting, I love photo shoots, I love interviews. I find that it's strangely a fun world to live in because I don't really get shy or anything like that. Maybe it’s like feeding my kid self.”
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