Sister. is an NYC-based indie trio composed of Hannah Pruzinsky (they/she), Ceci Sturman (she/her), and James Chrisman (he/him). The band released their first LP Abundance on Mtn Laurel Recording Co. in October 2023. In the meantime, the group has had their hands in many local projects: the band frequents and trades instruments in the likes of Told Slant and h. pruz, and Hannah and Ceci run GUNK, NYC’s indie diy show paper. Now, Sister. is gearing up for their first release since the album: the single ‘Colorado.’

‘Colorado’ marks the start of a new period for the band, but like all their work, it’s the result of close collaboration. The song started from chords and a line Hannah wrote—“You drive to Colorado and I get emotional”—and was built from there together. While it’s the first song Sister. recorded and mixed entirely themselves, it features singer-songwriter Elijah Wolf on drums, bass, and backing vocals. The single is supported with a music video directed by Véra Haddad.

Hannah and Ceci met as freshman year roommates at St John’s in Queens in 2014. The band was born their senior year of college when Ceci wrote a song for a course assignment and asked Hannah to sing it. Over the years since, they’ve been writing songs that could only come from their friendship, trust, and openness. James joined in 2020, and the trio grew close as collaborators and friends through the early days of the pandemic, during which they remotely recorded their 2020 debut EP Soft Spot. In 2021, Sister. followed up with their sophomore studio EP Something / Nothing.

Sister. released their debut LP Abundance in 2023. The album was largely self-recorded in Woodstock, New York in a friend’s cabin, where a nearby creek was constantly picked up in the mics, and rain on the roof occasionally ruined vocal takes. The band was finishing overdubs in Hannah’s closet back in Brooklyn when Felix Walworth (Told Slant, Florist) offered to play on the album, so Sister. enlisted Alex Harwood (Bloomsday) to record Felix’s drums and mix the record. The maximalist-but-handmade album teems with drum loops, creaking floorboards, synth strings, baritone guitars, chirping birds, space-bar clicks, and the close harmonies of old friends. The nine songs span years of collaborative songwriting between Hannah, Ceci, and James—and it’s a collection about and made of friendship.