Every now and then we hear a new (to us, at least) band and begin a mad dash to learn every single thing about them. Other times, we simply freeze up, get lost in the music, and lose care about any of the details that exist beyond the boundaries of the sounds that pull us in. The latter rounds into buoyant form today (February 22) with “Trumpet On A Hillside,” the hypnotic new single from Karina Gill’s San Francisco-based project Cindy.
The melancholic track floats between pastel clouds hovering across dream-pop and retro indie-pop landscapes, its melody drenched in a certain kind of self-care that comforts, consoles, and reflects. There’s a new album, too, the band’s fourth in April’s Why Not Now?, but we might just revisit that when our minds loosen up capacity.
“It’s hard to explain what a song is about,” says Gill. “Or, it’s not hard — it would just take too long and we’d have to be sitting in a room together. But that’s close to what I would say about this song: It’s about being in a room with people, the closeness and distance involved in that. And it’s about the vividness and grandness (sometimes) of the most ordinary experience.”
Tap into an extraordinary tale of the ordinary below.
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