Ora Cogan

Mixing a haunted folk with dreamy psychedelia and smoky hints of country and vintage darkwave, Ora Cogan is a singer and songwriter based on Canada's Vancouver Island. After developing her mysterious sound on albums like 2007's sparse Tatter, 2010's lo-fi The Boggy Mire, and 2017's hazier, spookier Crickets, Cogan made her Sacred Bones label debut in 2026 with her tenth album, Hard Hearted Woman. Cogan grew up on an island in the Salish Sea, in British Columbia, Canada. Her mother was a musician who co-owned a studio, and her father was a photojournalist. Her bohemian upbrin...