Indie folk rock singer-songwriter Ava McCoy is a native New Yorker, the only member of her Oregon-based family to be raised in the crowded metropolis. At 24, she has independently released multiple singles, an album, and most recently an EP on Acrophase Records (Mali Velasquez, Ginger Root, Font) called Closer to the Bugs. Her upcoming sophomore album, Dragonfly, is a collection of love letters to young adulthood—stories of her first solo journey abroad, her memories of singing along to classic Americana CDs in the back of her family’s car, and her ever-evolving quest to find love both internally and externally. Through her work, McCoy verbalizes what so many of us are afraid to face: the fear of being wrong, of loving too hard, and leaving anything unsaid.

McCoy grew up in a family of professional musicians and started writing songs at a very early age. Lead single “Young Girl” finds her going back to her Oregon roots at six years old in the back of a car / Roy Book Binder, John Prine, learned about Big Star. The music video features McCoy surrounded by scenes from the rural Pacific Northwest that inspired much of the new album: horses roaming across sprawling grasslands, winding roads through lush forest landscapes, fog creeping over mountainous horizons. Recorded during a series of sessions in Nashville with producer Josef Kuhn (Samia, Mali Velasquez, Annie DiRusso), “Young Girl” reintroduces Ava McCoy as not just a songwriter, but as a storyteller, letting the natural power of her lyrics shine, undistorted by excessive layers of sound. Young girl, it’s a big world, your first time at life / I think you have it down now, I still have the appetite.