Moving between avant-garde, jazz, classical, rock, and pop, Abbey has been busy gigging as a bassist for a decade, playing with Seattle’s best and beyond: including Alvvays, La Luz, Wayne Horvitz, Macklemore, Jonathan Wilson, and Cassandra Jenkins and most recently the new supergroup Drink the Sea. However in the last handful of years, she has begun to focus more on composing and leading groups of her own, namely her self-titled solo project as well as the instrumental trio Rae.Under her name, she has released an EP, and two LPs, the first landing on Gorilla vs Bear’s top albums of 2023, and the latest garnering notice from many corners of the web. Her songwriting calls back to the lyrical, hanging melodies of Sibylle Baier and Linda Perhacs, with angular, geometric chord progressions that lean in satisfying directions. Rendered through a self-assured and distinctive musical vocabulary, her songs offer an inspired and idiosyncratic take on “personal” songwriting, with insights into the central pressure points of human experience that run deeper than transparently confessional.