drea the vibe dealer.

The Chicago-based musician has spent much of her career drifting between the city’s various music scenes, floating through their cosmos and absorbing what she can before moving on. She describes herself as a wanderer. The effects of this wanderlust can be heard in her music: shapeless, genreless, somewhere in the gravity between jazz and post-punk and gospel and trip-hop. drea, though, uses simpler terms: “It’s like blue-purple. The sound Chicago usually makes is orangey-red, and I appreciate orangey-red, but that’s just not what I do.”