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""If only all pop music was this elegant, this eloquent, this infections, this damn unique. If Lovina Falls makes pop music, it is pop that has elevated itself to a higher plane, pop which glides the rarefied and high above chart pretensions, fads, and fashion, pop music that is both posed and poignant. This is music as art, art as music." - The Big Takeover, June 2025.

Welcome to Lovina Falls. Described as “joyfully unclassifiable" and "elegant baroque pop drama" by ” by The Boston Globe, Lovina Falls entered the scene in Spring 2023 with debut album Calculating the Angle of Our Descent, spawning video singles for the hypnotic, harpsichord-driven “On Your Side” and ethereal synth-rock genre-bender “Vaulted.” The album depicts a “soundtrack to a wonderland where the Bohemians, goths, punks, and dreamers took over,” writes the Boston Herald.  

All songs on the album were written, arranged, and produced by Valerie Forgione, as she accompanies her warm alto voice with piano, analog synths, guitar, bass, organ, swirling lush harmonies, and a mix of accoustic and electronic drums. Her creative efforts and vocal stylings have drawn comparisons to the likes of Kate Bush, Bat For Lashes, Fiona Apple, and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

Forgione’s latest project, produced by David Minehan, is also often compared to her former band, Boston’s beloved Mistle Thrush, whose combination of indie rock drive, dreamy textures, and sparkling pop song craft endeared them to many throughout the late 1990s and into the 2000s. Through their existence, Mistle Thrush shared the stage with such luminaries as The Strokes, Spiritualized, Sonic Youth, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Lush, and Slowdive; won numerous Boston-area music accolades; were featured in Billboard Magazine, and were heard on TV show soundtracks. Steve Morse of the Globe wrote that Forgione has “some of the most versatile pipes since the dream-pop heyday of Kate Bush”.

In 2024, Lovina Falls emerged as a live, collaborative project, with Alice Lee Scott on guitar (Mistle Thrush), Matt Klain on bass (Mistle Thrush), Chuck Ferreira on drums (Greg Hawkes, Eddie Japan, Shang Hi Los), Laura Klain on backing vocals (The Daylilies), Carrie Ingber on keys (Fade, Chromavoid), and seasoned Boston musician Brenden Cobb on guitar. Following the release of the album, Lovina Falls released two singles in summer 2024: the stormy “Tragedy”, and post-apocalyptic, love-at-the-end-of-the-world yearner “Ellery Way”, featuring Todd Demma (Mistle Thrush, Chameleons) on drums. This summer, Lovina Falls released a new single, 'Light and Low', followed by a feature in SPIN Magazine and dazzling review in The Big Takeover. This September 5th, Lovina Falls released the follow up to their first LP, Would That It Were', receiving industry accolades from Rolling Stone to The Big Takeover.

Welcome to Lovina Falls.