Alyssa Gengos (formerly know as “Kythria”) is now releasing her newest full length LP with Egghunt Records.

Over the course of Mechanical Sweetness, Gengos unlocks a new understanding of herself. On the cinematic opener “LAX Arrival Scene” paints the scene of ghostly starlet channeling David Bowie. She could be anyone to us: “See right through me / Forget my name / I don’t care anymore.” On the following “Gothenburg English,” we’re let in on a life-changing heartbreak that she’s finally begun to heal from. It's a timeless dance remedy for a broken heart that could fit in the ‘60s or ‘80s, distilling the yearning of Girl Groups and the intensity of Pat Benatar. She reflects about growing up a suburban gal on the outskirts of a city renowned for its grime and glamour on “Good Light.”

But it’s the title track that Gengos says is the most revealing. “To me, it feels like the most vulnerable song because there's a line in the chorus that says, ‘I got it all so wrong while my heroes sing along.’ And to me, that was the process of making the album. It was a lot of working through my feelings and seeing what I’ve done wrong over the past couple years and what I can learn from and what I let happen to me that I shouldn’t have let happen to me.”

It’s only fitting that an album indebted to solitary creative process ends with a lovesong to driving. Named after the road that Gengos first felt that rush of freedom after getting her license, “O Kanan Dume” captured that liberating euphoria. On Mechanical Sweetness, she reminds us how good it feels to be alone. How the most powerful embrace can be from yourself.