“Dripping in absolute sexy vibes that'll have you feeling like a powerful force of nature” (RockDafuqOut), LITTRELL is the playground of queer, non-binary artist Lindsay Littrell—where dark pop, alt-rock, and trip-hop collide in hypnotic, emotionally unrelenting soundscapes. Giving birth to “a visceral, genre-blurring masterstroke” and “one of 2024’s most compelling releases” (Imperfect Fifth), LITTRELL opens with an invitation into the water, but also meets you in the flames.
The debut album Public Love, co-produced with bandmate Garrett Langebartels, is an 18-track odyssey through longing, despair, experimentation, and transmutation, told through the lens of Littrell’s own love-drenched life. Never only personal, they frame this path of devotion through a political lens—grounded in Cornel West’s assertion that “justice is what love looks like in public” and bell hooks’ call to return to love as a practice of survival and collective liberation. Steeped in this belief that learning to love is urgent, tracks like “Shark Week,” “Cycle,” “Streams,” and “Dirty” blend haunting textures, cinematic beauty, and gut-punched lyrics to explore its waters through waves of desire, devastation, and defiance.
LITTRELL’s music has been featured on dozens of college, public, and independent radio stations—including KSYM (San Antonio), WXAV (Chicago, debuting at #18), and M3 Radio (Brooklyn)—appearing on air alongside artists like Chappell Roan, Childish Gambino, Clairo, Jungle, and David Bowie, while landing on playlists that defy easy categorization.
While praised for their singularity, LITTRELL is often positioned alongside artists like Kate Bush, Portishead, and Lana Del Rey—each known for crafting immersive emotional worlds. Littrell’s own influences span Prince, Meshell Ndegeocello, Radiohead, Janet Jackson, Sting, and the CCM of their Tennessee preacher’s kid upbringing—but Public Love wasn’t made in homage. It was made by pulling out all their guts, scoring their emotions, and producing by listening to their body—giving it what it wants.
LITTRELL also expanded the project into a silverscreen-worthy visual album—produced by Littrell and directed by Christian Barreno—including four full-length music videos, two cinematic trailers, and eighteen Spotify Canvases that give flesh to the Public Love universe. Jammerzine hailed the delicate edges and solid core of the work as “the heart of what all art should be,” while The Wild Is Calling described Littrell as “a revelation on camera.”
A 2025 Naptone Pop Single of the Year nominee, Bad—a taunting, provocative collaboration with dark pop/trip-soul producer Clutchboy Kuma—builds on LITTRELL’s cinematic world with seductive precision. Praised by Expansión Radial as “a sultry, dark, & powerful track” that “turns vulnerability into power,” and by End Sessions for its simmering tension and sensuality, the song holds a slow-burn mirror to repression and desire—bringing heat to bridge the distance. Sexy, subversive, and unapologetically direct, the track is both invitation and confrontation.
That same fire runs through Freedom, a PCRF benefit single released in 2023 that made clear LITTRELL’s commitment to using beauty as a tool for truth—unflinching and poetic, both protest and prayer.
More than a cinematic soundtrack for lovers, fighters, and those becoming something new, LITTRELL’s unfolding body of work moves fluidly between music, film, and performance—inviting fellow travelers into the radical act of feeling, imagining, and facing it all.
