“It’s hard to be young in San Francisco,” sings Marika Christine in the chorus of new single, ‘Music and Heart’. “It’s hard to be young and be in love with the music and heart / but we love you San Francisco.” The track is the third single from forthcoming album Soft Like An Apricot, coming later this month on Ghost Mountain Records, and, as the refrain suggests, serves as a love letter penned with poison ink. A celebration of a city in all its beauty, while refusing to deny the apparent hostility it displays to anyone who wishes to call it home.
Can you still be fond of a place which forces you to work long days on your feet just to stay afloat? A space otherwise all too happy to flaunt its luxury and wealth? The answer, Marika Christine suggests, is yes. Even if that fondness must be forever shadowed by the ache of unachievable dreams. “All the houses I could never afford / still bring me comfort because they’ve been around / for so long,” as Christine concludes. “I’ll build a castle that leads to another world / collage of colors in a city of fog.”
Soft Like An Apricot is due for release on 26th May via Ghost Mountain Records. You can get ‘Music and Heart’ now from the Marika Christine Bandcamp page.
