Saint Bodhi

ABOUT

Saint Bodhi’s music is eclectic and bold because it had to be. The Los Angeles singer and songwriter dives deliriously between expansive sounds and styles⁠—aquatic R&B, dreamy rap, and avant funk, among other genres⁠—as a way of conveying the complexity of her history and emotions. She looks to both past and present with unflinching honesty on her acclaimed 2020 debut Mad World, which digs through the traumatic memories of a tough childhood and toasts the hard-won success of her recent years. On 2021’s vibrant Antisocial, she continues to enjoy the blessings of her rise, preserving a peace that took decades to attain by both turning up and looking inward, making kaleidoscopic songs that feel deeply meditative and quietly anthemic.

“I was extremely honest with this record,” says Bodhi, and you can sense it not just in the lyrics but the overall expression. Both words and sound reflect someone who’s comfortable living in her own world—planting her freak flag on a highly custom technicolor planet for one. She pits piano-driven R&B ballads of heartache (“Hurt Like Me”) against sex-positive bangers (“Get Like This”), and trunk-rattling moments of spiritual crisis (“Guide Me to the Light”) against smooth, lounge-ready cuts about mental anguish (“Antisocial”). The album’s title underscores that this is her space, and we’re just lucky to get to visit. That’s fair—opening up to has been a process.