Mamalarky Share New Track "It Hurts" From New Album 'Pocket Fantasy'
Today we’re thrilled to share a new track "It Hurts" from Mamalarky! Stream it & watch the band's self-directed music video.
Mamalarky’s “tenderly tangled indie rock” (Pitchfork) has been heralded by Billboard, Nylon, Under the Radar, Vice Noisey and more, and the New York Times praised the "stop-start meter changes, peculiar chords, gnarled counterpoint, all packed into two playful minutes” recent single "Mythical Bonds". “It Hurts” takes a more slowed-down approach, pairing dreamy, melancholic vocals infused with twinkling synths that entice an entrancing change of pace on the record. Seasoned musicians who have played alongside the likes of Faye Webster, White Denim and Cherry Glazer as well as supporting Slow Pulp last fall, they continue to convincingly straddle together a myriad of genres to create melodic earworms that are impossible to categorize.
The band notes: "Writing about this song in this context feels extremely meta because the song itself picks at what it's like as a musician to essentially be careerizing your own experiences and emotions," Mamalarky's Bennett explains. "It's pretty bizarre to put out shit that is so personal–like, when someone loves a sad song you wrote it's like...I'm sorry we've been down in the same way? Or, I'm glad you enjoy listening to something that was essentially an intervention that I needed to have, haha.
"'It Hurts' is also a bit about the one-sided narrative of songwriters writing about their lives and relationships, for that to exist out there forever and to be consumed by people who only know the song. I'm always left wondering about the other side of the story when I hear those epic heartbreak songs, we'll just never know.
"There's one line about being 'a poorly drawn caricature,' which is what it can feel like having any of your music deciphered by anyone. The goal is to draw a really moving, poignant portrait though and I feel closer to doing that with every song we put out."
