Sydney Ross Mitchell – Cynthia
Singer-songwriter Sydney Ross Mitchell has announced the February 6 release of a new EP Cynthia via Disruptor Records.
Across eight tracks, the project embraces contradiction as Mitchell moves between her deeply religious roots growing up in Texas and her exploits as a twenty-something who now lives in Los Angeles, exploring how desire, guilt, self-indulgence, and grace coexist in her world.
Produced by Mason Stoops (Lizzy Mcalpine, Role Model), Jonathan Wilson (Angel Olsen, Father John Misty), Michael Harris (Mk.gee, Noah Kahan) and Sammy Witte (Harry Styles, Maggie Rogers), Cynthia spans soaring musical moments, stripped-back emotional performances, and anthemic choruses that mirror the dynamic emotional landscape she writes from.
Today, Mitchell also shares the vulnerable and complicated“Queen of Homecoming,” a song about her tenuous relationship with her hometown and her longing for validation and acknowledgement from the place she’s outgrown.
Told through the lens of a dinner party scene, Sydney, despite her best efforts, continues to say the wrong thing. Of the single she says, “Every time I visit my hometown, I have this fantasy that everyone’s going to be so excited to see me, that they’re proud of me – but it never goes that way. I just end up feeling like I’m seventeen again. Maybe you’re always seventeen in your hometown.”
Mitchell previously shared the EP’s title track “Cynthia” a true story about being approached in a strip club bathroom by an older woman named Cynthia, urging her to leave and citing a vision from God as the reason. Unbeknownst to Cynthia, her words echo an acutely familiar and painful sentiment for Mitchell, resurfacing a long-enduring struggle with her religious upbringing. The verses that follow pull you through memories that evoke the same ache – exploring how desire, guilt, self-indulgence, and grace coexist in her world.
Earlier this week, Sydney kicked off a string of North American Tour Dates supporting Vincent Lima. She played at The Troubadour in Los Angeles and The Independent in San Francisco with additional shows coming up in Vancouver, Seattle, Phoenix and more!
Sydney Ross Mitchell on Tour
December 6 – Vancouver, BC – Hollywood Theatre*
December 7 – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile*
December 10 – Boise, ID – Reurolux*
December 12 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex (The Grand)*
December 14 – Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom*
*supporting Vincent Lima
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