Crenoka Release Party

Crenoka isn’t new on the scene; she’s an old runaway coming back with a plan.

After roaming the roads, joining collective projects (Thé Vanille, Boys in Lilies) and tinkering with hybrid ventures, Nastasia Paccagnini has carved her own path with a machete. Since 2019 she’s been shaping a sound that isn’t afraid to spill over: alternative pop for overloaded hearts, 90s synths, soft autotune, dry beats and blunt confessions. Her songwriting sounds like rhythmic journaling: not to be pretty, but to survive. She sings of loneliness, mental load, battered femininity, a gentleness of anger, desires too large for the body she inhabits. And she does it with an honesty that squeaks and a melancholy that dances. Crenoka is a DIY sonic entity that might have read Haraway, liked Avril Lavigne, cried over Madonna and laughed while stubbing her big toe on the dresser. She speaks to those who cry under the strobes, to those who meditate while hating their meditation app, to anyone who no longer has the strength to be strong.

Don’t be fooled by the name of her new mixtape (out April 22, 2026): small eclipse of the heart is not a romantic drama. It’s a ten-track manual for emotional survival, for people who haven’t found the emergency exit in their own lives. It moves through the loneliness that follows the injunction to be on a roller coaster (and its mental lists delivered like slam over a drum machine), the gadget-loves in hotline mode with “the business crew is there for u,” the clubbing-emotional drifts of i’m sad (and dusty), up to the passive-aggressive therapy moment of sort it out, where Crenoka finally throws the ball back at the lost boys. The production is eclectic without being muddy: a clear patchwork.

90s dance that’s not fun, misty ballads, minimalist electro that snaps under the fingers, and always that voice at intimate height. Neither diva nor broken: a voice that owns not knowing, but says it with style. This mixtape isn’t here to please. It’s here to keep warm those who are fed up with being told how to get better.