Add Jennifer Vanilla to your ’80s alien-pop playlist
As Jennifer Vanilla, ex-Ava Luna singer Kye Grant can be a million things at once. They’ve described their extraterrestrial alter ego as “a noun, a verb, and an adjective all at once”; “an all-purpose, multi-use substance”; and an “entrepreneurial fantasy vessel and avatar-cultivation experiment LARPed into reality.” Glancing at these descriptors in 2023 inspires an automatic eye roll at post-post-modernism gone mad, but Vanilla’s music justifies the nebulous phraseology surrounding it.