Singer, songwriter, and sonic storyteller Melas Leukos unveils her most ambitious work to date with the release of Valiant One, a luminous full-length album tracing the eternal spiral of death and rebirth. Steeped in myth, ceremony, and the wild intelligence of the natural world, the record dares to dwell in life’s underworld spaces—grief, loss, rupture—while carrying the listener toward moments of shimmering joy, sacred wonder, and wholeness. At its heart, Valiant One is both a personal odyssey and a universal hymn: an invocation to remain present with what hurts, to find beauty in unlikely places, and to embrace transformation as a holy act.

“It’s an album for people in the middle of their own spiral—those moving through grief, transition, and becoming,” says Leukos. “It’s for the wild ones, the soft-bellied ones, the ones who walk through the world listening.”

A lifelong channel of melody, Melas Leukos first emerged with her 2017 EP Fable on Jumpsuit Records. Since then, she has honed her unique fusion of myth, song, and ritual through collaborations with Tone Ranger and performances in sacred spaces such as the Taos Mesa Amphitheater. Whether through music, illustration, or movement, her work inhabits the crossroads of the mystical and the embodied, inviting audiences into worlds where everything speaks.