A gentle-voiced indie folk singer/songwriter in the vein of Elliott Smith and Sufjan Stevens, Angelo De Augustine's music possesses an emotional honesty and power that belie its quiet simplicity. De Augustine's performances are generally built around his acoustic guitar, his falsetto vocals, and soothing melodies, and his lyrics are introspective, exploring the human heart in love or disappointment. Angelo De Augustine earned acclaim for his 2014 self-released debut, Spirals of Silence, which he recorded to analog tape in his bathroom. Signing with Asthmatic Kitty Records in 2017, he found an international audience with his follow-up, Swim Inside the Moon, and his emotionally raw 2019 album Tomb, while 2021's A Beginner's Mind was a collaboration with Sufjan Stevens. De Augustine's delicate folk-rock continued to evolve on 2023's surreal Toil and Trouble, where he created a mirror world to process the socio-political struggles of the times.