angelic milk, stylized in lowercase, is a project of Sarah Persephona from Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Born after the fall of the Soviet Union, Persephona grew up listening to The Ramones, Patti Smith, and David Bowie. While these previously inaccessible foreign artists found some popularity in Russia, its mainstream music industry was (and still is) dominated by domestic pop artists so it took some time for Persephona to find friends with similar tastes. “I was quite depressed about not having anyone to share my music interests with,” Persephona says. That changed when, at 14, she met a friend at camp who played guitar and shared a love for Bob Dylan. “He thought that I could be a songwriter. So I started a band with two girls.”

Her bandmates eventually lost interest but Persephona didn’t give up. “I believe in myself like crazy…For me it’s something mystical,” she says “I don’t even make any B plans, you know, in case I’m left with nothing. It’s quite risky but I think that’s what helped me a lot.”

Persephona taught herself how to play guitar by watching YouTube videos and eventually bought herself an Epiphone Les Paul. After posting a few solo bedroom recordings as angelic milk on popular Russian social network VK first in 2013, Saint Petersburg music collective Saint-Brooklynsburg took interest. “The Internet is a super cool thing,” Persephona says, “It’s very important for us here, because Russian bands start putting their music on the Internet and they start getting noticed.” Foreign fans and labels began to take note as well (including the staff at PNKSLM, who discovered angelic milk on Bandcamp).

The band's longest lineup consisted of Sarah Persephona, Valja, Ben, and Roma, although they disbanded in 2019. In this time, Persephona relocated to Istanbul, and worked on and eventually released her debut album under her own name, Manic Pixie Dream Girl, in 2022. This marked her first collaboration with Jura Titov, who, alongside Vitalii Zimin (Pivnoy Cowboy), she reformed angelic milk with officially in late 2023.

Since their reformation, angelic milk have released two singles, "Diana Ross," and "Birthday Song," with their comeback EP expected for release in 2025. The band is also now based in Berlin, Germany, and have had multiple live performances in the city in 2024.
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