Within a whirl of ferocious grit and layers of enduring and deliberate delicacy, Kristyn Chapman has found her voice through Morpho. It’s her ecstatic and fulfilling new Chicago-based project that has established her as a first-time solo artist. Having signed to rising Los Angeles rock label Hit the North Records earlier last year, the multi-instrumentalist released her debut EP, MORPHO SEASON, made up of five songs dedicated to forward motion, while still acknowledging the distance traveled to get to where she is now.

Kristyn Chapman and her band perform “Blue Light” and “Half of Two” from their recently released Morpho Season EP in the city’s River North neighborhood.

Kristyn Chapman is coming home to herself. The musician, who performs under the moniker Morpho, has spent many years playing with and supporting other artists. But it is through the release of her debut EP, titled “Morpho Season,” that Chapman is regaining her confidence and self-assuredness on the stage.

It’s never too late to start over, or so my astrology app tells me. Difficult life changes–a new job, a breakup, or a long-distance–invigorate our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. We do ourselves a disservice by cocooning in the mundane and stagnant. Performing as Morpho, Kristy Chapman sheds her old skin, giving way to a gleaming and self-assured version of herself on her debut EP, Morpho Season.

Kristyn Chapman's new musical project Morpho has just released its debut EP, "Morpho Season." It comes five years after her last recording but she says the time between those recordings was necessary.

Morpho is the project of Chicago transplant Kristyn Chapman, who is also an artist/photographer, and her passions truly inform each other in numerous ways. On her debut, Morpho Season, she takes the approach of an observer in regards to subjects like memory, lost relations, nature, and outside environments with a tactile approach full of compassion and strength.

Morpho – the Chicago-based project of guitarist Kristyn Chapman – has shared a new single from her debut EP, Morpho Season, which is out this Friday (November 15) via Hit the North Records. ‘Blue Light follows the previously unveiled tracks ‘Prism’and ‘Half of Two’. 

Morpho – the Chicago-based project of guitarist Kristyn Chapman – has announced her debut EP. Out November 15 via Hit the North Records, Morpho Season features the previously released single ‘Prism’, as well as a new track, ‘Half of Two’. “This song’s about finally making peace with endings,” Chapman explained. “Untangling from the past and old stories.”

Now that we’re past that disorienting era of COVID-induced quarantine where every year impossibly feels both like a week and a century at the exact same time, the only way to achieve this astrophysical phenomenon is to begin a new relationship—to lie in bed for what could equally likely feel like five hours or five minutes. This is the subject of Chicago native Kristyn Chapman’s debut single as Morpho, “Prism.” Looking back on this sensation from the rearview of a relationship, the blissful indie-pop track sounds more inquisitive than yearning.