Ravenna Cole started composing music in 2025 as a way to perform the poetry she has written over a 20-year career of relentless experimentation and searching. In a tour de force of musical output, she wrote, performed, recorded and produced her debut album The Bountiful Dream (coming September 2026) in 3 months without any prior recording experience and without the use of AI or Auto-Tune.

Her music draws on the raw, honest lyricism of emo rappers like Chika, Juice WRLD, Lil Peep, and mgk, the danceable beats and electric melodies of pop artists like Tate McRae, and the boundary-pushing aesthetics of art-pop icons like Kate Bush, Björk, and Tori Amos.

Based on poems from her book The Alchemy of Grace, songs on The Bountiful Dream openly ask the biggest of religious questions but never take refuge in easy answers. The songs, like the poems, follow rivers of lived personal experience as they flow out onto entirety, and ask more questions than they ever dare to answer.

Living as experimentally as she writes, Cole has reduced her possessions to almost nothing and spent the last decade living on a boat and in a van with her family traveling oceans, rivers, deserts and mountains in search of the truth—the heart of the heart of reality—in order to put what she has found into her poetry and music.