Photo by Bridgette Winten
It really is impossible to avoid the echo of love after the end of a relationship isn’t it? Doesn’t matter how little they deserve it, doesn’t matter the myriad reasons they’ve given you to hate them, you’ll always be haunted by photo-perfect image of their face, their better angel, the reason you loved them in the first place.
Maple Glider’s second single “Good Thing” does a good job of summoning that particular injustice. Australian born Tori Zietsch has a wistful, natural vocal style that matches the grainy images of the accompanying video flawlessly. The video brackets warm daylight heavy shots of red roses and Tori’s smiling face by shots of that same face framed by midnight, a blanched and drained look in her eyes. Breakups are draining whether the relationship is bad or not and from her lyrics, it seems likely that this relationship wasn’t all that bad. It never got the chance to become bad. “And so I’ll say goodbye/ Because I’d rather kill a good thing/ Than wait for it to die.” But is it worth it? Is it less painful to exit the tragedy before the climactic death knell? Or is it better to have loved and bled than to never have lived at all?
None of these questions are answered of course. But Maple Glider, having officially signed with Partisan Records this week, describes her upcoming album through images, one of those images being a coroner’s report. Probably better to have loved and bled then.
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