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Cory Blair makes music built from emotionally authentic storytelling, visceral instrumentation, and raw experimental tone. Cory Blair is the solo musical project of Cory Seyler, a songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist from Asbury Park, NJ, whose music subverts immediate categorization and moves between worlds of indie rock, Americana, synth-pop and anthemic ear-worms, all with an intimate, unflinching lyrical voice. Her debut EP Midheaven arrives August 7th, 2026.

Cory grew up in Asbury Park, NJ absorbing music from every direction: a James Brown concert at the age of nine, Bouncing Souls at Convention Hall, Marina and the Diamonds at The Stone Pony. She came up on metal, emo and pop-punk until she was enamored with multi-instrumentalists Lady Gaga, Adele, and Florence and the Machine, and later avant-garde and experimental music. Her north star artists like Björk, Fiona Apple, St. Vincent, Cate le Bon, Big Thief, are ones who never dilute their strangeness.

For a decade, painting ran parallel to music. She moved to Berlin in 2017 to deepen her practice as a figurative and landscape artist, to learn a new language, and immerse herself in European culture. She deepened her curiosity of electronic music, music production, and studied spaces in which music is experienced in, from raves and demonstrations in the street to defunct power stations that blast their sound systems into early morning hours. She met David Hedderman in Berlin through life drawing and began performing his songs, a collaboration that ultimately led to her role on his debut LP Pulling at the Briars (2024), produced by Conor O’Brien (Villagers) on Berlin-based Groenland Records. After recording in the studio in Dublin for that record, and seeing Nils Frahm perform live at Funkhaus in 2023, she knew she wanted to build out her own music project and set out to make her first record.

In 2023 she returned to Asbury Park, a deliberate decision to be back in her hometown, record her own music, and build community through music. Midheaven is what followed: engineered by Erik Kase Romero (The Front Bottoms, Palmyra) and 2 tracks co-produced with Luke Temple (Here We Go Magic, Adrianne Lenker), it is a debut collection about distance, grief, homecoming, and the quiet realizations of time passing. Lead single Other Side is the first key into her world.

Cory Blair was featured in the Asbury Park Press where her recent submission to the NPR Music Tiny Desk Contest 2026, Martyrs was mentioned,

“The country-noir track is a winner with an alluring melodic line and soft sultry vocals,”
Chris Jordan, Asbury Park Press

Cory Blair plays The Berkeley Backyard in Asbury Park, NJ on August 6th 2026 ahead of the Midheaven EP drop. Northeast coast tour dates are slated for fall/winter 2026 — watch for the announcement.

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