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\u201cSinging is my true instrument,\u201d says Bria Salmena, the L.A.-based singer-songwriter who might be most famous for playing guitar in Orville Peck\u2019s touring band<\/strong>. \u201cThat\u2019s really my preferred form of expression. I\u2019ve been thinking a lot lately about how to put myself deeper into my songs, how to make my songs more like emotional journeys.\u201d Combining shoegazey synths with grungey guitars, her debut full-length, Big Dog<\/em>, is full of pained anthems of disconnection, alienation, and regret \u2014 all sung in a voice that sounds engaged and enraged, wounded and at times even feral.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also her first release to bear her full name, after making a handful of records with the Toronto postpunk band Frigs and a pair of wry country-covers EPs credited simply to Bria. Remarkably, every release sounds like its own world with its own musical palettes and its own vocal demands. Looking over her small but diverse catalog, she\u2019s not always happy with what she hears. \u201cI listen to some of those older performances and it\u2019s like, shit, I sound like I\u2019m phoning it in.\u201d<\/p>\n

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To avoid her future self dismissing Big Dog<\/a><\/em>, Salmena recruited Meg Remy of the Toronto experimental band U.S. Girls to serve as a coach and vocal producer. \u201cMeg told me something that really stuck with me: A record is a permanent thing, so it\u2019s always going to sound like this. That was pretty sobering, but I felt even more committed to getting everything just right. I knew I couldn\u2019t let myself fuck this up.\u201d<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t always easy, as Bria devised dramatic arrangements that both heightened the intensity of the songs and posed some significant challenges. One song in particular, \u201cStretch the Struggle,\u201d took several throat-shredding takes: \u201cIt was a lot of held notes that go into these big, belty screams. We were trying to get full performances rather than spliced-together comps of performances.\u201d Once she finally nailed it, the song became the strident heartbeat of Big Dog.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Now the challenge is how to re-create those harrowing performances onstage. \u201cIt\u2019s becoming muscle memory at this point. The more I do it, hopefully the better I\u2019ll get at it. I just have to not smoke as many cigs.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cSinging is my true instrument,\u201d says Bria Salmena, the L.A.-based singer-songwriter who might be most famous for playing guitar in Orville Peck\u2019s touring band. \u201cThat\u2019s really my preferred form of expression. I\u2019ve been thinking a lot lately about how to put myself deeper into my songs, how to make my songs more like emotional journeys.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2046186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[379303],"class_list":["post-2046185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bria-salmena"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/FULL-THROATED.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2046185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2046186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}