Dagmar Zuniga: Debut Album Released Today via AD 93

Nicaraguan-American artist Dagmar Zuniga’s debut solo album in filth your mystery is kingdom / far smile peasant in yellow music — a jewel of tapped-in algorithms and message boards, written and recorded in New York, Norway, and Athens, GA over a period of five years on her longtime companion, the Tascam 424 — is out today (10 April) via AD 93.

Zuniga makes music that feels both intimate and expansive: songs drift like disrupted signals, carried by harmony, tape hiss, and a strong sense of touch. Originally uploaded to Bandcamp and YouTube in January 2025, in filth quickly garnering over two hundred thousand views and the attention of artists such as Mount Eerie, who invited her to tour with them that summer.

The record — featuring musicians Hayes Hoey, Austyn Wohlers (Tomato Flower), and Zach Phillips (Fievel Is Glauque) — is an atmospheric, devotional collage where one voice multiplies into a chorus of selves, sometimes delicate, sometimes severe; an effect created by Zuniga’s masterful layering of texture and complex harmonies. Synths glitter out like spears of sunlight from beneath clouds of moody, time-distorted guitars, and songs spin about themselves like tightly-wound music boxes, making use of a kind of hypnotic repetition, before melting apart into their components or slipping into the following track. Zuniga also hosts a monthly show on NTS Radio entitled ‘World of Pain’. Read her Rising interview for Crack Magazine HERE. She will tour later this year, details to follow.

Dagmar Zuniga’s debut album in filth your mystery is kingdom / far smile peasant in yellow music is out from today (April 10) digitally and in a variety of physical formats via AD 93. Find more information HERE.

PRAISE FOR DAGMAR ZUNIGA:

“It’s a gorgeous, rough-around-the-edges set where Zuniga’s soft, high voice wanders shyly around plucky guitars and tinkering synths; the fuzzy, tape-recorded intimacy evokes Grouper and Vashti Bunyan/” 

The Guardian

“These songs encourage you to perceive time differently as you listen, less as a series of discrete events arranged linearly and more as a constellation of memories and premonitions, dreams and regrets.”

Pitchfork [8.0]

“An intimate, transportive debut.” 

Crack Magazine

“Zuniga’s raw, layered, and spellbinding sonic explorations offer a uniquely immersive listening experience.”

Consequence of Sound

“If we’re lucky, a songwriter like this comes along every half-decade, seemingly emerging out of nowhere, while somehow channeling everywhere.” 

DAZED

“A work begging to be revisited, dissected, studied as it waves desperately for salvation beyond us.”

Paste Magazine

“[These songs] seem to exist in alternate dimensions outside of time, flickering in and out of our reality like ghosts. It’s odd to think about regular human beings producing this music.” 

Stereogum

“Dagmar Zuniga creates immensity with very little indeed, patiently sculpting statues out of thin air.”

NARC Magazine [5*]