LABEL: Partisan Records
CAT NO: PIE030LPC
BARCODE: 9332727114717
Tracklisting:
1 As Tradition
2 Swimming
3 View From This Side
4 Friend
5 Be Mean, It’s Kinder Than Crying
6 Good Thing
7 Baby Tiger
8 Performer
9 Mama It’s Christmas
MAPLE GLIDER – To Enjoy Is The Only Thing
LP – Limited Edition Pearly Green Coloured Vinyl
(With Printed Inner.)
Maple Glider is Naarm/Melbourne-based singer-songwriter Tori Zietsch. On debut album To Enjoy is the Only Thing, Zietsch’s vocals melt into layers of plucked acoustic guitar and lulling piano, drawing on the sombre styles of folk contemporaries with a stark tenderness and introspection that assumes the listener is inside her bedroom as she plays for herself. Striking emotionality is at the centre of this performance, leaning into an intimacy that is achieved by way of deeply personal reflections and velvety melodic compositions.
In Tori’s words: “To me, To Enjoy is the Only Thing feels like walking past tinsel-covered trees in mid-September, swimming along the calanques in the south of France, frost on the hood of a car, darkness at 4pm, lightness until 10pm, Sibylle Baier’s Colour Green, Devendra Banhart’s Ma, Adrianne Lenker’s a-sides, a muted feeling, the perpetual grey fog that swallows the Silver Coast in Portugal, an ugly green dress, the color red, red wine, red blood, red lips, the red of a cardinal’s robe, Switzerland, my mother’s diaries, a coroner’s report, the sun on my face, the end of love.