Vancouver’s purveyor of melodic grit and garage-pop heart, Alex Little, has just released her excellent new EP, ‘Spider in the Sink’, available now on Light Organ Records. Fans of raw emotional intensity coupled with soulful delivery—the kind found in the music of Wolf Alice, Sharon Van Etten, and Blondie—will find plenty to love in Little’s mix of fearless honesty and rock energy. Written and performed with her guitarist and partner, Adam Sabla, and produced by James Younger of Yukon Blonde, the five-song collection sharpens her sound into something leaner, rawer, and wonderfully self-possessed. It is a striking record that drags fear into the light and finds pure melody in the mess, full of tracks that pulse with soulful defiance and self-reflection in equal measure.
Across ‘Spider in the Sink’, Little writes with the distinct authority of someone who has fought her way back to solid ground. The artist bravely confronts her own cycles of anxiety with clarity and dark humour, singing, “My brain is not a friend, it is a bad enemy,” on the powerful title track. The track “Forever” absolutely glows with self-realization, boasting the hard-won clarity of the line, “I finally figured out that there’s actually nothing wrong with me,” while the closing track, “Finally Safe in the World,” offers the record’s quiet triumph, its chorus lifting like a long-held breath finally exhaled. Little herself explained the broad scope of the project, sharing, “Spider in the Sink’ is about so many things. I think most importantly, it’s about taking back your own power, a power that you always had but didn’t use. It’s about acceptance of your true self as a whole, the past and all the horrible and good things that happened to get you to where you are now.”
Raised in Vancouver in a household surrounded by both rhythm and color, Little’s instincts were shaped by her musician father, drummer Taylor Little, and visual artist mother, Pauline White. Her childhood home was filled with sketches and Bowie records, alongside the sounds of The Replacements, The Beatles, and Iggy Pop, an eclectic mix that shaped her drummer’s sense of dynamics and her songwriter’s melodic flair. The band, featuring Sabla’s wiry guitar lines, Tony Dallas on drums, and Hayz Fisher on bass, sounds alive and beautifully unfiltered. Lead single “Sounds Like a Deal” remains the record’s most biting moment, turning media exploitation into a searing garage-rock sneer, while “Kid” offers bittersweet clarity, and “Finally Safe in the World” lands as a hard-won peace.
Already part of the Light Organ and 604 Records family since 2019, and with her acclaimed debut under Alex Little and the Suspicious Minds behind her, Little has earned a reputation as one of Vancouver’s most magnetic songwriters. Supported by a trusted circle of collaborators, she continues to expand her reach without losing the raw soul at the center of her sound. ‘Spider in the Sink’ captures an artist in full bloom: fearless, deeply human, and absolutely ready to be heard far beyond her city’s borders, solidifying her status as a crucial voice in modern indie-rock.
