Les Ailes will be playing a show with Seattle local bands ‘Dining Dead’ and ‘Mia Day’ on 2/2 at Skylark Cafe in West Seattle during a small west coast tour in support of their recent EP release, how to greet a praying mantis. Show info here and below:

Skylark Cafe
Friday, February 2nd
Doors 7 pm, music 8 pm, all ages until 10 pm
$10

‘how to greet a praying mantis’ by Les Ailes, out January 12th

This small EP was made with UK producer Julie McLarnon (Lankum, New Order) and friends at a residential analog recording studio nestled in the foothills of the Mourne Mountains, in Northern Ireland. This collection of songs emerges out of a period of ongoing shadow work. It feels like an apology and an outcry at once, baring anger, sadness, and newfound self-love.

Les Ailes is the indie music project of singer/songwriter Rylie DeGarmo, synthesizing her early jazz melodic influences with a folk honesty derived from formative years spent writing songs in the american south. After cowriting and releasing an EP with her musician father in their hometown of Seattle (The Rue, 2015), DeGarmo spent much of her twenties sojourning across the southern united states developing her own writing style characterized by textural rhythm guitar in unique tunings and a clear, distinctive voice that pulls at the heart strings, waxing nostalgic. She independently released a debut full-length record as Les Ailes (Tennessee, 2021), following up with several EPs on the way to an anticipated sophomore LP, currently underway with a newly minted live band out of Portland, OR.