Canadian producer/singer-songwriter Lydia Ainsworth grew up immersed in both pop music and experimental classical sounds, her father a working musician and her mother a set designer. After completing a film scoring program, Ainsworth fleshed out rough ideas she'd been working on into her first album of minimal electronic songs with an experimental bent. Her sound grew increasingly conventional with subsequent releases, morphing into a polished, accessible take on dark pop with albums like 2021's Sparkles & Debris.