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Sugardeer is an indie project led by Cleveland-based artist Danny Kit. Their music is resplendent chamber pop inspired by nostalgia, antiques, sweaters, and fear. In 2019, Kit graduated with a degree in Music Composition. Disillusioned by the trappings of modern classical music and given time to reflect by a certain global pandemic, they put their academic goals on ice and enveloped themself in the local indie scene. Through the support of this community and the processing of a strained relationship, Kit released the first Sugardeer single, "So, Was It Worth It?" in February 2021, and committed to developing their mixing and production talents. The result is their debut EP, Good Names for Strays–which was released on all streaming services November 17th, 2023.

The album, with its “quirky, yet arresting” vision, was met with immediate praise and enthusiasm, garnering listeners near and far and placing Sugardeer in Cleveland Magazine’s top releasing artists of 2023. They now are working on a full-length record as they join local bands and organizations in improving the quality of life for the Cleveland DIY scene that did so much for their development as a performer.

"I was a really scared kid with a lot of things to say that I couldn't," Kit explains, "so this is my way of making up for that." Good Names is a liberation from a repressive upbringing; from a self-conscious college career; and from an alienation borne of their private disposition. In six richly orchestrated tracks, Kit rearranges their past into a path forward.