In Paula Garcia’s native Portuguese, sobrenadar loosely means “to float,” which gives you a sense of her style. She started to write songs in the mid-’00s, inspired by ambient downtempo electronics, ’90s shoegaze, ’70s pop and new wave film scores — Sobrenadar’s dream pop soundscapes and vocalizations have a watercolor quality to them, and are as much indebted to Boards of Canada as Cat Power. She self-released several singles and her first two albums — 2010’s self-titled record and 2012’s _1859_ — before participating in the 2015 Academy in Paris. In 2018 she released her third album, _y_, on Sonic Cathedral Recordings, working with the producer Tibo Javoy (Jarvis Cocker, Zombie Zombie); she also sang on tracks for experimental ambient musician Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, on his album _On the Echoing Green_.
