ABOUT

Carrington MacDuffie makes indie pop with an edge—hook-driven, atmospheric, and unmistakably her own. A published poet and an award-winning narrator of over 250 audiobooks, she brings a rare command of language, tone, and emotional precision into her music, giving her songs a cinematic immediacy. 

Raised on everything from Beethoven to Brubeck, she was writing songs by 14 and performing in Greenwich Village by 17. Her path since has cut through New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Nashville, and Austin—a journey that has shaped a distinctive body of work blending alt-pop, dream textures, and narrative songwriting that colors outside the lines, and taken her to audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.

Her recent releases showcase that range: Better That Way hits with defiant, funk-tinged energy; Sugar Drip delivers sleek, driving pop; Sonar (Valentine’s Day 2026) reveals a hypnotic, late-night intensity, and Fenestra Aeternitatis grooves its way to an alternative consciousness on an irresistible trip-hop beat; Follow Your Arrow delivers a punchy, high-energy reimagining of the Kacey Musgraves hit.

Her new LP, Sugar Drip, includes a lyric video for the previously unreleased Sweet Pea—a literary lullaby that swells to intensity and back again.

Also a music video producer, MacDuffie builds a full visual world around her songs—her video for The Kiss I Didn’t Get Last Night screened at the Santa Clarita International Film Festival. Her music has been compared to artists as varied as Bowie, Eurythmics, and The Cranberries, but the through-line is unmistakably her own.

At its core, her work is driven by curiosity and transformation. Each song is its own world—where the mystery at the heart of music surfaces in her voice. She writes for the spark between people, for the charge beneath words, for the feeling that hasn’t yet found its form—and gives it one.