Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Camila Ortiz, who records as Otracami, has announced her second album, Runoff. It’s due for release on March 20 via Figure & Ground. It’s led by the intricately poignant new single ‘Please’, which you can hear below.
Written exactly two years ago, ‘Please’ captures what Otracami describes as “a long, unsteady season of despair” at the turn of winter. “I was trying out leaving for the first time—people and jobs and situations with family,” she explained. “It was real trial and error—sometimes that really worked and felt liberating and other times I had to turn around and go back. It was a period of big experimentation.”
Thematically, Runoff draws from both the landscapes of Ortiz’s life in New York and her childhood in Northern California. “The stuff I used to make felt like it was much smoother and that kind of feels like California—there’s this open, flat, uncanny smoothness to everything. New York feels murkier, there’s more friction out in the open, just in the way that people relate to each other. I think that made the music more angular and expressive.”
Runoff Cover Artwork:
Runoff Tracklist:
1. Headphones
2. Sirens
3. The Wait
4. Can’t Go Back
5. Lose You
6. July 19
7. Sleep Well
8. Lost Fruits
9. Perfect Reach
10. Please
11. Penny Frog
