Les Ailes is the indie music project of PNW-based singer/songwriter Rylie DeGarmo, synthesizing her early jazz melodic influences with a folk honesty derived from formative years spent writing songs in the American South. After cowriting and releasing an EP with her musician father in their hometown of Seattle, DeGarmo spent much of her twenties sojourning across the southern United States developing her own writing style characterized by textural rhythm guitar in unique tunings and a clear, distinctive voice that pulls at the heart strings, waxing nostalgic. Following 2021's debut album "Tennessee," Les Ailes released a sophomore record, "Lou Heron" this past August. Alex Dzamtovski calls Lou Heron "A strikingly intimate folk album shaped by personal upheaval and collective reckoning. With a sound rooted in the raw vulnerability of Big Thief and the ambient haze of Beach House, Lou Heron brings together themes of embodiment, grief, and radical care."