Bad News is a new EP from Magana, the solo project of acclaimed LA-based multi-instrumentalist and photographer Jeni Magaña. Best-known as the current bassist and backing vocalist for Mitski (recently performing on the ‘Coyote, My Little Brother’ / ‘Buffalo Replaced’ single), Magaña is also one-half of the pen pin pop duo with Emily Moore, and has previously played with Lady Lamb, amongst others.

In March, she returned to the Magana project after a three-year-absence with the critically acclaimed Teeth LP, which reunited her with Audio Antihero Records (Frog / CIAO MALZ / Nosferatu D2) who issued her debut in 2016. Released to coincide with the peak illumination of the Worm Moon, her return was marked with a “witchy rock” sound that combined acid folk, synth pop, and indie rock. Magaña followed this in October with ‘DREAMS,’ a multimedia project released via the UK’s Hand Drawn Hand label, which combined ambient electronic music with a spoken word dream diary and a book of her photography.

The Bad News EP is her third release in a ten-month period. Teasingly described by Magaña as “cozy core” and “winter pop,” these four songs see her return to the singer-songwriter focus of works like Golden Tongue and Teeth but strip away the rock and ambient layers, so to emphasize words, meaning, honesty, and change.