This week's feature album is To Enjoy is the Only Thing, the debut LP from Maple Glider.
The solo project of Tori Zietsch is an album full of brittle intimacies and effortlessly balanced instrumentation. In the singer-songwriter tradition, Zietsch explores deeply personal themes which feel almost self-cathartic. Over plucked acoustic guitar or deftly weighted piano chords, Maple Glider shares vignettes of her life; growing up in a restrictive religious household, falling in and out of love, interstate and international relocations and beyond.
Zietsch describes the collection of tracks as:
"Walking past tinsel covered trees in mid-September, swimming along the calanques in the south of France, car-bonnet frost, darkness at 4pm, lightness until 10pm, a muted feeling, the perpetual grey fog that swallows the Silver Coast, the colour red, this ugly green dress, red wine, red blood, red lips, red is the colour of the cardinal’s robe, Switzerland, my mother’s diaries, a coroner’s report, the sun on my face, the end of love, “To enjoy is the only thing. BTCH$”
Listen to the first single off the album 'Swimming':
To Enjoy is the Only Thing is out June 25 via Pieater and Partisan Records. Pre-order yourself a copy here, or PBS members can tune in on air all week for a chance to win.
TOP TRACKS WE'RE LOVING
The Goon Sax - 'Psychic'
Tennis Pagan - 'dala'
MOD CON - 'Ammo'
Liars - 'Big Appetite'
JAZZPARTY - 'Nobody Gets Away'
Xan Tyler & Mad Professor - 'Clarion Call'
Modern Woman - 'Offerings'
Planet of the 8s - 'Holy Fire (feat. King Carrot)'
Divide & Dissolve - 'Far From Ideal (Chelsea Wolfe Remix)'
