Under the overcast and cloudy skies of Portland, electronic musician Natasha Kmeto creates soulful, synth-heavy ballads that extend across decades and genres. Kmeto writes, produces and performs all her own music, crafting a blend of house, soul and R&B that wouldn't sound out of place alongside powerhouse songstresses from the '80s and '90s, but in a forward way that is undeniably now.

Over the course of her solo career, she's graced stages with a diverse roster of artists like Flume, TV on the Radio, Flying Lotus and Four Tet, playing to festival-sized crowded and in intimate venues. In addition to creating music under her own name, she also lends her talents as a member of the Portland band Chanti Darling, whose sound harks back to decades of yore, updating a blend of funk and R&B into an ecstatic, crystalline sound.

We caught up with Kmeto to talk about her musical history, the value honesty has added to her art and the new music she's presently working on.