Through their sometimes-toxic, sometimes-reflective, always-honest approach to songwriting and production, IMMATERIAL! chronicles the beautiful messiness of life as a daring queer 20-something. At its core, their music is pop, informed by childhoods spent watching the unapologetically fierce evolution of bold, queer pop icons. Let loose in the gay clubs of Brooklyn, IMMATERIAL! remixes that pop foundation with other genres of music that have been essential to their identity, most notably electronic, dance, alt, and disco. IMMATERIAL! music celebrates a genuine confidence that sometimes borders on delusional self-aggrandizement, other times borders on brutal honesty, but always comes from a place of deep self-understanding.
IMMATERIAL! is made up of Abby (they/them) and Camille (they/she), two mid-20s queer artists living in Brooklyn. Their name is an homage to the late music producer SOPHIE, whose artistry has been formative to their development as artists and people. Her bold, avant-garde production blurred the line between the “real” and the “produced,” embodying the very queer/trans idea that nothing is more authentic than what we create and how we define ourselves—themes echoed in the lyrics of her perfect pop song “Immaterial.”
Abby and Camille are self-taught producers who have been friends for nearly a decade. They do it all themselves: songwriting, composing, sound engineering, music and vocal production, mixing, mastering, promotion, and yes, living the drama that inspires the songs. They record all their songs at the New York Public Library’s free professional recording studio, Studio40.
Most recently, IMMATERIAL! announced their sophomore EP being/feeling, a 9-track non-stop project they describe "dissociative dance music." The EP tracks themes of self, family, identity, sex, trauma, and relationships, all through the course of a night out at the club. This is their most ambitious project yet, dipping into new genres of disco, house, synth pop, techno, and electronic dance music.