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Maripool

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city: London
country: Portugal, UK
genre: Indie
styles: Bedroom Pop, Indie Rock, Diy, Singer-Songwriter

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credits: Carina Simões

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It All Comes at Once

out on October 14, 2022

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Filled with emotive charm and drawing from the canon of 2010s jangly guitar-centric pop, 1990s shoegaze and midwest emo, 'It All Comes At Once' is energetic and romantic, confronting head on themes of self-criticism and heartbreak.

Maripool is the moniker of Lisbon-born, London based songwriter Natasha Simões, a self-described “one girl band” who works largely solo, writing and playing on her guitar-driven, bedroom-pop arrangements.

Upon moving to London at 18, Simões got a job at Whole Foods and bought a guitar with her first paycheck. Having never played music before she then spent most evenings teaching herself how to play the music of her heroes from the midwest emo scene.

Aged 21 she was ready to join a band, within which she started to feel confident playing guitar and writing songs. When that band split up Simões decided bands weren't for her so, in a very practical way, she got a drum kit from a friend, set it up in her room and started to learn it as well as bass. Slowly from there songs came to life and, not wanting to release under her own name, she needed a moniker. Inspired by the scene in The Simpsons when Milhouse starts to write on Bart’s cast, Simões adapted the gag to include the beginning of her middle name and Maripool was born.

Honing her craft in isolation, Simões would eventually fall upon what would become the world of Maripool - a captivating mix of melancholy that swirls between the delightful wonders of articulated shoegaze, and a witching hour state of deep-blue dreaming. Maripool’s debut single ‘Blindness’, released in 2021, received critical acclaim from the likes of DIY, So Young, and Pitchfork.

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Today, Lisbon-born, London-based singer songwriter Maripool releases her debut EP, ‘It All Comes At Once’ via Practise Music. Filled with emotive charm and drawing from the canon of 2010s jangly guitar-centric pop, 1990s shoegaze and midwest emo, the EP is an energetic, romantic and accomplished interpretation of the extremities of human emotion and Maripool’s own inner demons.

The lead single, ‘Softly’, is a dream-pop anthem with ethereal vocals responding to bright, bending guitars and climaxing in a subtly euphoric chorus. The second track, ‘Untitled’ is a charming indie offering, with juxtaposing elements of hope and cynicism. Following is Maripool’s second single off the EP, ‘This Time Again’, that summons a deep feeling of nostalgia with its hypnotic, lush arrangement with lyrics that are both lackadaisical and sinister (‘And I’d like to see you cry / Yeah I’d like to see you die’). The EP ends on ‘Coming Back’, a bittersweet ode to longing and loss.

“It All Comes At Once revolves mostly around dealing with a lot of anger, being naive and in some ways hopeful. I wanted to make it kinda of like a journey of finding all these flaws and strengths in me but talk about it with an attitude of nothing can take me down. Even with the artwork for this one I wanted it to be me looking all beaten up from life, bleeding and there’s all these demons around me but I’m ready to take the fight. It’s a sort of face and kill your demons kind of EP but with a childlike approach of dreamy songs and hand drawn artworks. With the title ‘It All Comes At Once’ it’s very reflective of what was happening in my life at the time, everything would happen all of a sudden and all at the same time. It was a mix of a lot of bad and good things happening all at once.”

[Practise Music]