untitled freak – 7 circles
untitled freak releases “birthday” and announces their debut EP, 7 circles.
untitled freak is the solo project of Ali Genevich of the band Laveda. Laveda’s recording cycle ended in fall 2024. After the close of this long creative chapter, a low-stakes moment of musical exploration led to writing the title track in a single sitting. Writing the songs without anyone else’s input allowed Ali the creative freedom to create while submerged in a flow state. “Untitled Freak” is a perfect example of this. Captured through a minimal setup—a tiny Crate amp and a Beyerdynamic Soundstar MK-2—the recording took on a raw, intimate weirdness that immediately felt like a self-introduction. The name untitled freak stuck because it echoed the feeling of finally meeting a part of herself that had been waiting to emerge.
On “birthday” Ali shares, “After I made the track and first listened back I realized I had successfully transported myself back in time to when I was 19, when I first started writing music. My college roommate Grace had a project called Lone Phone Booth and they were, and are still, a major reason I started writing and recording my own music. To me this track is not so different to how I imagine some people experience synesthesia. When I listen to ‘birthday’ I’m somehow back in the kitchen of my first college apartment on Morris street. Maybe the song had always existed and was buried deep inside my head. I don’t remember writing it. I think it already existed somehow.”
Genevich writes melody first, letting the vocal lines carve out emotional space long before the words themselves appear. The lyrics that follow lean into semi-unreal, instinctive phrasing—think the emotional immediacy of Cocteau Twins, but more legible and narrative-leaning—kept entirely from first passes with no rewrites or polishing. As those spontaneous words settle, they reveal themes of self-discovery, internal contradiction, and emotional sublimation. Unafraid to dive into the discomfort of insincerity, the romanticization of self-pity, and the low-lying angst of feeling at odds with yourself, the resulting music is an entity onto itself that sinks into its own sadness with cathartic clarity—an unfiltered reflection of someone discovering what’s been inside them all along.
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