ABOUT
Les Ailes is the indie music project of PNW-based singer/songwriter Rylie DeGarmo, synthesizing her early jazz melodic influences with a folk honesty derived from formative years spent writing songs in the american south. After cowriting and releasing an EP with her musician father in their hometown of Seattle, DeGarmo spent much of her twenties sojourning across the southern united states developing her own writing style characterized by textural rhythm guitar in unique tunings and a clear, distinctive voice that pulls at the heart strings, waxing nostalgic. She independently released a debut full-length record as Les Ailes, Tennessee, in 2021. This debut and subsequent releases tease out a reconciliation of internal and external authority, both lyrically and often through the immediacy with which they’re shared—at times favoring transmission over production, and each time inviting a dream-like presence and imagination.
"A PNW must listen."
- Matt Vaughan, Easy Street Records
"'Loaded with the kind of liquid chord changes that make all distractions turn to dust, [PNW] based artist Les Ailes (Rylie DeGarmo) creates subtle jazz-infused folk soundscapes in which less is always more, and where every melodic twist and turn hits with devastating clarity."
"DeGarmo’s vocals often register as detached but yearning; always front and center spinning a tale of something unrequited and unfulfilled...[Tennessee] is highly effective at reaching down and really stirring an emotional response of longing."
- We Own This Town, Nashville, TN
