Sarah & Collin are a Los Angeles-based duo whose music lives in the tension between light and shadow, a place where atmospheric alternative-indie, industrial edges and cinematic psych-rock coalesce into something neither fully of this world nor outside it. Their debut album, This Time, embodies that meeting point with remarkable clarity, creating a world that feels immersive, dreamlike and charged with emotional depth.
Vocals from either singer drift above textured soundscapes before folding into one another and revealing a layered duality at the centre of their collaboration. On stage, they’ve already been described as offering a “cinematic music experience,” with listeners drawing comparisons to the strange, magnetic tone of a David Lynch film. The album extends that atmosphere, translating it into a fully realised sonic landscape.
Alongside the recorded work, the world around This Time has been growing through a series of intentional, carefully crafted DIY performances across Los Angeles. Rather than moving through the city’s traditional venue circuit, Sarah & Collin have rooted themselves in community-oriented, artist-driven spaces – pop-up shows in homes, backyards and unconventional rooms that mirror the cinematic intimacy of their sound. These events have become one of the main generators of early buzz, drawing crowds through word-of-mouth and the duo’s reputation for transforming everyday spaces into atmospheric environments.
Questions and Answers
3 FACTS
1: I love air conditioning. – Collin
2: Camels are pregnant for 14 months. – Sarah
3: We want to play a show in Berlin. – Both
11 QUESTIONS
1. What is the biggest inspiration for your music?
Life. Our feelings. Specifically the more intense ones that come from life events.
2. How and when did you get into making music?
Collin: When I got tendinitis in my leg at 12 and was grounded at the same time. The one thing I was allowed and able to do was play guitar.
Sarah: I started playing the piano when I was 4 years old. Music has followed me through life since then. I got most into making music in high school when I tried writing a song for the first time.
3. What are 5 of your favourite albums of all time? (yes we know it is difficult).
Collin: Lonerism (Tame Impala) and Joshua Tree (U2)
Sarah: Blackstar (David Bowie) and In My Own Time (Karen Dalton)
Both: Vespertine (Bjork)
4. What do you associate with Berlin?
Sarah: Techno
Collin: Design and concrete
5. What’s your favourite place in your town?
Collin: The cafeteria at a mall in Koreatown.
Sarah: The beach.
6. If there was no music in the world, what would you do instead?
Sarah: Pastry Chef. I love sweets.
Collin: A travel guide.
7. What was the last record/music you bought or listened to?
Sarah: Entremont Plays Satie and Play Me by Kim Gordon.
Sollin: I bought Reaper Mook, Pagne Galore.
8. Who would you most like to collaborate with?
Both: We want to form a super square with Dan Snaith and Beach House.
9. What was your best gig (as performer or spectator)?
Sarah: The last house show – felt very emotional for me and big for us. It was the first time I felt like I was just a vessel for the music.
Collin: Yeah, our last house show in my home in Mt. Washington was crazy. We went all out with lights, sound, stage, and booze, for over 300 people. So special.
10. How important is technology to your creative process?
Collin: Not really important. I mean it is because we can record on our own with it, but the core of our music can be communicated with one instrument and a voice.
11. Please tell us a little more about the making of your new album “This Time”.
Both: We both had some song ideas that we brought to each other and edited together. Recording the music happened naturally over a few months. The essence of the album came from our trip to record vocals in Bodega Bay over a week. We kinda got to know each other there.
