If you could see your music, what would it look like? 

It would look like a dark room lit only by the candle on your bedside, it would be the moon peeking through the window in the darkness of your home, it would look like an old journal packed away in your basement waiting to be discovered.  

What is the most crucial equipment for your music-making? 

Equipment… Can people be equipment? The people (Chris Dimas, Madison Nicol and Gage McGuire) that worked alongside me on my upcoming record are definitely the most crucial to my music making at this point. However if that sounds dehumanizing calling people equipment, let’s just pretend I said my journal and phone that host countless notes and voice memos. 

What is your favourite home cooked meal? 

My favourite home cooked meal made not by myself would maybe be my mom's leftover roast beef in sandwich form. 

Tell us a handful of songs that you've always loved or that you've been enjoying lately!

• High Waist Jeans by Julia Wolf 

• Moon Song by Phoebe Bridgers  

• Circle the drain by Soccer Mommy  

• Describe by Perfume Genius 

• Daylight Savings Time by Dizzy 

• Thumbs by Lucy Dacus  

• Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls  

• Best Friend by Saweetie and Doja Cat 

• First Defeat by Noah Gundersen 

• Solar Power by Lorde 

• Taken by MUNA 

• Sweet Time by Raveena 

• I’d rather go blind by Etta James  

Marissa Burwell is an indie act from the heart of Saskatchewan, known best for her captivating yet endearing performances in basements and coffeeshops. On her self-titled EP we see an artist starting to find her sound and it is clear that she is on the verge of something special.