I wrote an entire opera when I was seven,” she laughs. “It was maybe fifteen minutes long, with a princess and prince and a lot of torture, loss and happy ending stuff going on…strangely, not too unlike what I do now.”

In all of her music Germano conveys her search for something that’s just out of reach. This restless irresolution informs the beauty of her lyrics – a beauty too painful to be confined to words, it spills into her music, bringing sound and substance into an uncanny accord. As Rolling Stone put it, “her songs take a harrowing swan dive into the depths of her soul, baring all and sparing nothing.”