Superfan is the songwriting veil of Kali Priya Flanagan, Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist and producer. Initially imagined as a solo act, ambitious string arrangements crafted in collaboration with cellist Omeed Almassi have come to define Superfan’s noisy and magnetic pop soundscape.

Kali began studying music at age four and writing songs at age eleven, signing his first record deal at age fourteen while refining his singular musicality across piano, drums, bass, upright, and violin. Now having just signed with London based label AD 93 (Joanne Robertson, YHWH Nailgun, Dagmar Zuniga), Superfan is set to release the sophomore album My Piledriver Heart (MPDH). The album marks the birth of “Acousticello”, the extensive live collaboration between Flanagan and Almassi.

Kali cites albums such as Ryuichi Sakamoto’s 1996, The Sea and Cake’s Parasol, Cat Power’s The Greatest, Low’s Trust, Sigur Rós’s Hvarf/Heim as inspiration, alongside the vocal stylings of Elizabeth Fraser, Beth Gibbons, Rufus Wainwright, and Harriet Wheeler of The Sundays, who Kali pays homage to on “Joy.” “As I began to pass (as a man) while making this record, I experienced a newfound freedom to explore the expanse of my gender expression through my voice. I gravitated toward a thick, solemn drawl, sung with a decorative prettiness and maternality in how commanding it is, which I first began doing as a pseudo-imitation of Lana Del Rey

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