Ciara McNally✓ Label-managed

My name is Ciara McNally. I'm 21 years old. It still feels surreal that my music is now out there for people to judge, understand, replay, or skip.. This EP Ivory reflects my teenage years, the transition into adulthood, and the quiet shock of discovering the “truth” about real life — its monotony, the yearning for more, regret, and a deep desperation to belong. Every song is rooted in personal experience.

Speaking about the release, Ciara says:

“It still feels surreal that my music is now out there for people to judge, understand, replay, or skip. I’ve been writing music since I was eleven, though I loved writing long before I ever picked up a guitar. Stories, bad poems, living inside my own imagination — I daydreamed constantly. Music became a permanent presence in my life, a place where I could find the right words and sounds to match how I felt, and feel comforted by that”.

“The cover artwork was painted by my close friend Shannon O’Doherty, based on a photograph I took of my dog, Bruno. I asked for deep blues and whites to create an almost cyanotype feel. Bruno is my best friend and has been my comfort blanket through some of my darkest moments — it felt right that he would hold this music” The EP was recorded by [Shayne Byrne], who created a safe space for me to be weird, loud, non-verbal, and completely unhinged at times. He helped me enjoy making and listening to my own music — something I never thought I’d be able to do. I’ve always struggled to listen to my own voice, and songwriting is exhausting because it requires re-living pain in order to write honestly.

Vulnerability matters to me. Lyrics are always taken most seriously, and the sound has to reflect the emotion behind them. I don’t want to make art that isn’t real — I want it to hurt a little, but ultimately to heal. To release these parts of myself. To spill everything onto the page.