PREMIERE 'Are U Ready?' Pralaya
Listen to "Are U Ready?" by Pralaya taken from "Are You Ready?" EP out on December 1st via Sonora Destroy Recs
There’s something unpredictable about Pralaya. One moment she’s behind a piano chasing chord progressions that could score a love scene, and the next she’s twisting those same harmonies into syncopated 160 bass chaos. Based in Saint Petersburg, this classically trained musician fell down the rabbit hole of footwork — and instead of keeping it academic, she got her hands dirty, producing, sampling, and even trying out the moves herself (turns out it’s way harder than it looks).
Her EP Are You Ready? marks the first on the digital release series on SDR, and it couldn’t be a better way to start. The project feels like a love letter to rhythm itself — soulful, funky, and unpredictable in all the right ways. Some tracks carry that hip-hop swagger, flashes of attitude that nod to her love for the genre, while others lean into R&B warmth and Chicago grit with Northern cold vibes.
Each track deserves a full listen: there’s no filler here, just groove experiments stitched together by feel and instinct. To close things off, Fourtwenty Sound comes in swinging with a hyper-jungle flip that turns the EP inside out without losing its soul.