Discography
Out May 1, 2026 on Strange Moon Records
live from the unknown launches Kaley Lane Eaton’s Plectrum Five into recorded territory, capturing live, full takes with no edits in an analog environment. On this record, Kaley introduces us to some of the stories and poems of her family: seven generations of women and only daughters out of Boulder, Montana, who first entered this land in the early 1860s and live there to this day. Her poetry wrestles with the lives of women who settled the west: the violence and oppression that they both experienced and inflicted, the independence they wrested in such a harsh landscape, the communities they created and cared for, and the profound relationship with the land and their personhood that ultimately grew out of this deeply confusing and problematic movement into the west.
Art by Alex Allen; photo Michelle Smith-Lewis; hair and makeup Gina Bettelli
Out March 15, 2024 on Strange Moon Records
On her second album Lookout, Eaton regularly makes pressure-testing trips from the vast cosmos down to the particular details of home in the Pacific Northwest. In her words, “It’s a behemoth.” From the ever-expanding space of jazz cymbals, flute, and harp, down to the folksy pluck of her banjo — a prized recent acquisition — and the grounding chords of her great-great-great grandmother's piano, which shipped up the Missouri River to the family homestead in Montana. - Ian Shuler
Cedar is composer-vocalist-pianist-producer-singer-songwriter Kaley Lane Eaton’s debut album, an electro-chamber pop song cycle that is equal parts origin story and manifesto. Written in the dead of lockdown and the west coast wildfire crisis of 2020, cedar ties the loss of mother, to the loss of societal intuition, to the loss of beloved landscape that we collectively face. Eaton’s orientation in both art song and ambient IDM, intertwined with the virtuosity of Seattle’s best neo-jazz and classical improvisers, captures a distinct Pacific Northwestern aesthetic: tuneful beauty, solitude, and destructive noise. BUY
Album art by Alex Allen
Electronic improvisations, recorded and released each day for the first month of the COVID-19 pandemic.