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When, toward the beginning of 2020, Xyla began crafting the tracks that would become her debut album, she was in what she has described as a âvulnerableâ place. After six years in San Francisco, where she had moved from Houston to study French horn at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, she had spent a few months in Berlin, soaking up the cityâs electronic-music scene. It was a heady time: She clubbed by night and made music by day, gathering inspiration from the unfamiliar city around her. But upon her return to the Bay Area, her spirits came crashing down. She was jobless and mourning the loss of close friends. The fog was thick, the air cold, her outlook bleak. âI was kind of alone and depressed and Iâd wake up and all I would do was produce,â she told KQED. âIt was the only thing I had the energy to do.â