MOLLY DEWOLF

Molly DeWolf has always fought an internal struggle between the cerebral and the emotional. Born to a doctor mother and mime / dancer father, the Seattle native grew up attending circus camps and vaudeville shows. She turned to musical performance in middle school, when she auditioned for a local rock n’ roll vocal ensemble. There, she learned to sing the greats like Aretha Franklin, Linda Ronstadt and Janis Joplin, but under music direction that dictated to study and master these artists’ songs but never to deviate from their original performances, because she was not as good as them.

This rigid academic approach stuck with the young singer as she continued singing at Harvard, and later on season 10 of American Idol. Fundamentally, she was talented, and while filled with a desire to create, her experience of the music industry repelled her. Abandoning her music, Molly spend five years building RYOT -- an immersive media company specializing in news, documentaries, AR & VR -- which she sold to the Huffington Post / AOL in 2016, in the first VR content company exit in history.

Shortly after the sale, Molly had a fortuitous meeting with the men in BRÅVES. At an event she attended, BRÅVES happened to be there to perform an original song they had written, inspired by an elephant poaching documentary... a RYOT Film Molly had produced two years earlier. Mutually inspired -- Molly by their musicianship and vocal prowess, and BRÅVES by her creative achievements and aspirations -- they decided to make music together. Five years after her last musical undertaking -- as a Superbloom post-drought -- Molly DeWolf and BRÅVES wrote and recorded in 2 months what would become her self-titled, debut EP.

Molly puts her own romances under the microscope as she sings of the various stages of relationships, examining the distance between certainty and uncertainty and the effect of time on love and pain, atop the soft, industrial beats BRÅVES are known for. In the philosophical ballad, “8 Seconds,” she sings about falling in love with someone she’d known for years, and questions how it came to be, with this person, at this time. Conversely, “Hologram,” though the most dance-worthy song on the EP, is the most tragic, as Molly uses the track’s namesake as a cerebral metaphor for the different realities you live in during an impending breakup.

Like a futuristic Sade, Molly intertwines the emotion of ‘80s and ‘90s R&B with the brooding nature of modern day dark pop, and like the greats that came before her is a strong, female multi-hyphenate to be reckoned with.