Sulynn Hago

Sulynn Hago grew up in Tampa, Florida, spending years in the city's underground punk scene before becoming recognized as one of its finest guitarists. She played in bands including Ink and Sweat, New Bruises, Feral Babies, and Career, building a reputation through the clubs and DIY spaces of a city with a fierce music tradition. In 2015, that reputation reached a new level when she was selected from roughly 400 applicants worldwide as the touring guitarist for Propagandhi, the beloved Canadian punk and metal institution. She has toured with them for roughly a decade since.

After establishing herself in Tampa and on the road, Hago relocated to Brooklyn, New York, where she continued performing with the Chris Cochrane trio and working steadily on her solo debut. That album, "Faith in the Doghouse," arrived November 7, 2025, the product of four years of work recorded largely in her New York apartment. The recording process included building a DIY vocal booth from PVC pipes, clamps, and blankets, a detail that captures the spirit of the record: deliberate, resourceful, deeply personal. It was also the first time Hago stepped into the role of lead vocalist.

"Faith in the Doghouse" was produced by Hago alongside Evan Frankfort, with Eric Somers-Urrea on drums. Hago played vocals, guitar, bass, piano, and synth across the record's ten tracks. She has described her musical sweet spot as spanning the 1970s through 1990s, and her own framing of the album's vision: "new wave '80s pop-dance music, with a kind of punk sound." Reviewers have confirmed that the record delivers on that description. The Orlando Weekly noted that it "strikes a very impressive balance between dreamy indie, dirty rock'n'roll and bouncy bass driven post-punk," and that it is "not a standard punk album at all."

The album opens with "Pocket God" and builds across tracks like "Dark Country," "Explode," and "Black Suit Pink Urn," each one demonstrating the clarity of Hago's songwriting instincts and the precision of her playing. "Driving Off a Cliff, 1967," released as the second single in June 2025, was described by New Noise Magazine as "a smokey blues-rock track, a slow, smoldering tune with a lot of chaotic energy bubbling beneath the surface," with a video that brought a noir sensibility to rooftop footage and industrial imagery.

Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, which has followed her career across multiple features, called her "one of Tampa's best guitar players." That praise lands differently now that she has channeled that technical depth into a record that shows how much there was to say when given the space to say it entirely on her own terms.

Hago described the project as "really like my life's work to date, it's an accumulation of everything I've ever studied along the way." "Faith in the Doghouse" is the kind of debut that takes years to make precisely because it had to become something worth the wait. It is a record with its own logic and mood, made by someone who has been listening carefully, and playing hard, for a very long time.