Local visual artist and experimental singer-songwriter TeZATalks crushed the competition this past September at the Afropunk battle of bands in Atlanta, GA, mostly on the strength of her uncompromising sound: unconcerned with genre, sometimes distorted, anxious and punk-hop. Her full-length debut, Apart to Chaos is music that The Stranger describes as “raw, emotional, and electronic.” Respect My Region says it’s “an emotional story of love, heartbreak, self-realization, and triumph of individual artistic spirit.” Spotify labeled it a top “fresh find.”

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