XE-XEM is the debut EP from Starly Kind

Release: May 08, 2026 

* THIS IS A PREORDER; ALL ORDERS ARE EXPECTED TO SHIP A WEEK BEFORE THE STREET DATE (If you order anything else with this, it will not ship until all items are in stock) Mockups are representative and for reference only, we cannot guarantee final vinyl effects from plant. 

Pressing Info: First press;

• Vinyl: 180 gram, black vinyl; Limited Edition of 100 units w/ obi strip

• White Label (x23); features alternate artwork; all screen-printed jacket, center labels and insert, signed & numbered by Starly

• Cassette: (x100) on Sonic Smoke shell

• CD: (x100) gatefold CDs

"Starly Kind is releasing their CorpoRAT Records debut, Inferno:
(Xe/Xem), in May 2026. The six-song EP will be available for
streaming and physically as a limited run on cassette, CD, and
vinyl, including lathe cuts for the singles, “Starly Kind” and
“Demon Dreams,” with screen-printed art on the B-side.

Starly co-produced Inferno: (Xe/Xem) alongside their partner, Leo Fazio,
who also played bass on all the tracks save “Demon Dreams.”
Piano was performed by Matheus Vieira, and Inferno: (Xe/Xem)
was mixed and mastered at Veredas Áudio in São Paulo by
engineer Iran Ribas. Starly Kind is the culmination of Riggs as a multi-hyphenate
creative: a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, journalist, visual
artist, among other things.

To date, Starly Kind has released a pair of singles and a live EP, and performed throughout Brazil andPortland, Oregon where they lived previously, then playing in the doom-y griefgaze band, Death Parade. Starly Kind invites comparisons to King Woman, Chelsea Wolfe, Nuvolascura, and yeule. Riggs’s songs are adventurous collage art, flirting with but never committing to emo, punk, doom, screamo, shoegaze, new glitch, jazz, Brazilian music, and haunting David Lynch-esque cinematic musicality. These tracks are thrilling sojourns through challenging odd time signatures, startling dynamic shifts, and dense textural passages featuring
clarinet, flute, and distressed samples. They are frightening, empowering, and oddly comforting.

Riggs brings Starly Kind to life with a raw emotional live show
that exudes an extra-terrestrial-creature-from-the-stars pageantry,
occult ceremoniousness, and scrubbed-raw purgation.
Starly Kind’s latest, Inferno: (Xe/Xem), explores queerness
through the lens of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. It is the first
installment of a three-part release series, concluding with
Paradise.  Throughout the EP, Riggs revels in extreme dynamics,
navigating jostling music shifts with aplomb, easing between
breathy singing and blood-curdling screams." -Lorne Behrman

Tracklisting: 

1. Starly Kind

2. Held Me With

3. Supernatural Clutches

4. Bloodlust Rising

5. And The Devil Watched Me Dance In

6. Demon Dreams