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"  Photo: Courtesy of Audible Treats Nylo didn&amp;#039;t expect anyone to notice her voice. Sure, the singer-songwriter posted her debut EP, Memories Speak, onto Soundcloud last year. But &amp;quot;this wasn&amp;#039;t something I was really shooting for,&amp;quot; the R&amp;amp;amp;B songstress said, still coming to terms with the fact that after posting the EP online she was quickly signed to Epic Records, has since released a stunning follow-up EP, Indigo Summer, and is already hard at work on her debut full-length album. &amp;quot;If you actually do the math, getting signed is less likely than winning the lottery,&amp;quot; she contended. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s completely random. I don&amp;#039;t really understand. I&amp;#039;m just super thankful and super grateful and humbled.&amp;quot; The 23-year-old, who was born in Chicago but resides in L.A., has a soothing, silky voice\u2014one that&amp;#039;s drawn stylistic comparisons to avant-R&amp;amp;amp;B singer The Weeknd. Ask her, though, about her creative choices and Nylo is quick to tell you she didn&amp;#039;t so much decide to sing R&amp;amp;amp;B music as stumble upon it. &amp;quot;Nothing was really that planned out. It was just the perfect form of people and minds,&amp;quot; she said of weekend trips she&amp;#039;d take to the desert with friends to record the music that ended up becoming Memories Speak. Certain songs, like the falsetto-strewn &amp;quot;Rent Free,&amp;quot; were the byproducts of experimentation. &amp;quot;I was singing it in a real low voice,&amp;quot; she recalled. &amp;quot;I thought, &amp;quot;Well, what would happen if I sang it an octave up?&amp;quot; Indigo Summer was recorded in spurts over the past year; the second half of the Indigo sessions will be released this fall as Indigo Rose. Originally, the singer was going to release the project as one 13-track full-length, but she eventually opted to split the recordings into two separate EP&amp;#039;s. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s going to fit perfectly with winter coming,&amp;quot; she predicted of the more melancholy Indigo Rose. &amp;quot;I feel like I&amp;#039;m influenced a lot by the weather.&amp;quot; Nylo, who draws sartorial inspiration from the 1960s Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick New York fashion scene (&amp;quot;She was the most beautiful stylish person ever!&amp;quot;) is busy writing material for her forthcoming full-length debut. And while countless collaborators have approached her, the starlet admitted lately she&amp;#039;s felt more comfortable writing by herself. The perks of her newfound fame are often lost on her. &amp;quot;Well, sometimes people send me shoes in the mail,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;I mean, I never had that happen before.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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