"Meet the woman with the most world-weary voice in music: She's most assuredly creating the soundtrack to whatever becomes the next The Craft or Natural Born Killers — a little bit industrial grime, a little bit shoegaze, a little bit dark af - Refinery29

“a Southern-psych dreamland, bottling up ghosts and bringing them to life through her ethereal hymns." - Huffington Post

"It’s rare that a song strikes so perfect a balance between foreboding and sensual, but Thayer Sarrano gets it just right. It’s not even that Sarrano is dark so much as that she seems to have an instinctive ability to spin everyday emotions into potent vignettes of an unsettled soul. It’s powerful, relatable and anything but shaky.” - Paste Magazine

“From the sonically chaotic title track and “Totem” to the soothing, choir-driven “O My Soul,” the songs on Wings Alleluia are emotional experiences that Sarrano selflessly shares, not swampy nests of distortion or disposable pop songs. The religious talking points made apparent by these song titles don’t make it a gospel or New Age album – although Sarrano and friends would excel at reshaping either genre. Instead, they’re testaments to the spiritual power of a good song. In short, Sarrano made another album that’s unquestionably from Athens and not exclusively beholden to any specific strand of indie rock or to a single belief system. Press likened the album to “the twang of Cowboy Junkies/Margo Timmins, the look-to-the-sky dreaminess of Harriet Wheeler/The Sundays, the obtuse pop hooks of Polly Jean Harvey, the feedback of Jesus + Mary Chain, the production values of Beach House and the modern hooks of Nicole Dollanganger.” High and descriptive praise, yet even all of that might be limiting when it comes to defining the latest creative vision from one of the Classic City’s most imaginative musical exports.” -Stomp and Stammer

"Sarrano can morph from angel to devil in the same song. The looming atmosphere of dread and submission conjured turns over a new page in Southern Gothic storytelling" —Pop Matters

​“While Sarrano’s music has always maintained an elemental quality, her voice, lonesome and beautiful, remains purely ethereal. It’s the convergence of these two qualities that makes her songwriting so transportive; “First Light” is just the latest example of this enduring mysticism…

Sarrano’s dreamy songwriting often gets labelled as psychedelic, but her poeticisms are so spiritually minded that transcendental might be a better descriptor”- Immersive Atlanta

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“Pitting a murky, ominous, lumbering arrangement against her ethereal voice, with its consciously mysterious dearth of affect, Sarrano crafts a sound that is hauntingly eerie. Bringing this palette to a canvas that includes country, psych, Southern Gothic, even industrial, it’s easy to imagine her scoring True Detective‘s first season.” – Elmore Magazine

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"One part shoegaze, another couple parts Southern gothic, a dash of folk, some classic country, and whatever else she pleases, Thayer Sarrano has emerged this spring with a new record. Wings Alleluia is the album that every singer/songwriter strives for, but rarely hits. Definitely a “lights off” affair, but Sarrrano isn’t unleashing a darkness to swallow you whole. Instead, she reaches out to the listener with hope. She isn’t just a musician, she is a guide..” -News Whistle 

"Like shoegazing with a twang, but there’s a maximalist epic thing going on, too. It’s rare that a singer is able to balance synthesizers with a slow, Southern vocal palette, and it’s almost like inventing a new language of song. Well, here it is, and it’s gorgeous!” - FlyPaper

“There’s a vast and rich territory between country and folk music and desert psych that really deserves to be explored more thoroughly. Athens, Ga.’s Thayer Sarrano is a great exponent of this philosophy, and she does a superb job of illustrating her complex narratives about personal relationships and spirituality with heavy, psychedelic sonic textures — throughout her catalog, and without a doubt on her 2019 album Wings Alleluia. Standout cut “Back to the Home” casts a nuanced lyric about something ordinary — the challenges of two people trying to stick together — in an otherworldly light. It’s a way of finding the extraordinary aspects of day-to-day living that sometimes get glossed over.” - Steven Trageser, Nashville Scene

https://immersiveatlanta.com/review-thayer-sarrano-drifts-skyward-on-wings-alleluia/

BIO-

The follow-up to 2019's Wings Alleluia, Ancient Future (3/10/23) is a contemplative and uplifting soundtrack through themes of time, consciousness, imagination, hope, memory, and love--with influences including magical realism, science fiction, gospel,  transcendentalism, and the natural and supernatural worlds.

Since 2009, Thayer has released five LPs, a live Ep with a string chamber ensemble, and several singles. She has toured constantly, headlining tours in the US and Europe, as well as supporting artists like Drive-By Truckers, Television, Robyn Hitchcock, Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven, and more. Her songs have been featured on several network television shows, in an installation in the Netherlands' Groninger Museum, and she has won music video awards. She has also released books of original artworks and lyrics. In addition to her own band, she is a well known collaborator with numerous acts as a session musician, composer for short films, documentaries, and installations. 

“Ancient Future” (03/2023) was recorded live at Gypsy Farm in Lavonia, GA, with Zeke Sayer and Marlon Patton engineering. Produced by Thayer Sarrano and Marlon Patton, mixed by Marlon Patton. Mastered by Patrick Damphier. Band: Marlon Patton: Drums, Bass. Matt “Pistol” Stoessel: Pedal Steel, Dobro, Acoustic guitar. Rick Lollar: Baritone guitar, vocals. Thayer Sarrano: vocals, electric guitar, piano, synthesizers, percussion.