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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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on hashbrandnew.com since February 11, 2021

credits: Carina Simões

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Practise Music

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This Time Again

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out on September 07, 2022

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Today, Lisbon-born, London-based singer songwriter Maripool announces her debut EP, ‘It All Comes At Once’ via label home Practise Music, due 14 October. Filled with emotive charm and drawing from the canon of 2010s jangly guitar-centric pop, 1990s shoegaze and midwest emo, the EP is energetic and romantic, confronting head on themes of self-criticism and heartbreak.

Alongside the EP announcement, Maripool will release her second single to be lifted from it, ‘This Time Again’. The track summons a deep feeling of nostalgia that gently tugs on the heartstrings. A 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’), ‘This Time Again’ is a dark song that shines brightly.

The accompanying video is lo-fi and atmospheric, as we watch Maripool cycle through a park matching the meandering, wistful energy of the track.

Maripool on the single: “I wrote a really pretty sounding song and I wanted to take it to the extreme with the lyrics. It’s the kind of song where you wouldn’t expect to hear the words ‘I’d like to see you cry, I’d like to see you die’ but at the same time it also made total sense with how I felt. I wanted it to feel like you’re walking through a field of daisies but you’re also really angry.”

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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