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Jun 26, 2025 By Caleb Campbell Photography by Alli Miller

Tomorrow, indie pop singer/songwriter Susannah Joffe is set to share her new EP, Cult Leader, which sees the NYC-via-Austin songwriter blending together a handful of buzzing genres and aesthetics, including airy synth pop and simmering, twangy Americana. There is an equal split of Angel Olsen, Indigo de Souza, Lana Del Rey, and Chappell Roan at play in her music, coming out in the lustrous hooks and plaintive storytelling of recent singles like “Sofia Coppola” and “Call Me Pretty.”

Joffe debuted with a handful of singles during the pandemic years, releasing her first EP, The Punch, in 2022 before honing her aesthetic with her 2024 EP, Your Mother’s Name. Most recently, Joffe shared the closing track to the Cult Leader EP, “Horses Can’t Outrun Me,” and ahead of the record’s release, she’s back today with an early listen to another highlight, “Antler Queen,” premiering with Under the Radar.

Although Joffe hasn’t mentioned Yellowjackets as an explicit inspiration, it’s hard to imagine a different source for the title “Antler Queen.” In the show, the Antler Queen leads the survivors of a high school girls’ soccer team after their plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness, ruling over the proceedings as they descend into ritualistic hunts and cannibalism. Joffe’s song of the same name is a fair bit less intense and bloody, but it retains the same cultish devotion to its titular subject. Joffe’s vocals swirl heady and lovelorn through a treacly alt pop haze, recalling Lana Del Rey’s dreamy pop Americana with some added fiddle sawing away in the mix. Later, the track locks into a shimmering groove, dancing towards the song’s end amidst woozy guitar work and murky spoken-word confessions.

All along, her lyrics offer tribute to an obsessive love affair: “My sorceress, my anarchist / My beloved, my true love’s kiss / You know I would’ve killed for this / My god I would’ve killed for this / So fuck me and the government / And say you love me like you mean it / Did you ever mean it?”

Check out the song below. The Cult Leader EP is out everywhere on June 27th. Joffe will also be performing her first headlining show at NYC’s Baby’s All Right on July 10th.