If there was any month on the calendar just piss-soaked in procrastination, it would be December. Tasks are put off, obligations are ignored, and any responsibilities we normally have throughout the year are casually discarded solely in the name of distractive holiday cheer.
A reflective look into this practice is what makes CIAO MALZ’s effervescent new indie-pop single “Two Feet Tall” all the more relatable, as songwriter Malia DelaCruz takes us through an introspective assessment where all the small things we continuously fail to address begin to build into something emotionally and mentally insurmountable.
Coincidentally, those who procrastinated in compiling their own Year in Review lists now have the chance to include the Brooklyn-based Filipino-American project’s forthcoming new EP, Safe Then Sorry, out this Friday (December 6) via non-binary-owned Audio Antihero Records — because the warped propulsion of “Two Feet Tall” suggests a true gem of ’24 could arrive right at the end of it.
“Two Feet Tall is about the feeling of losing an inch every day you put off making that call you really need to make,” admits DelaCruz. “It’s the pile of clothes growing bigger and feeling yourself getting smaller. Regardless of the overcompensation, the mountains to hide behind — that unsettling feeling persists. I wanted to evoke the feeling of stagnation while everything else is in motion, so the lead on this track quivers in front of the persistent drums that push the scene along.”
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