Marsy – Changes & Rosé
Marsy who towards the end of last year announced details of their signing to Heavenly Recordings, have today released their latest double A-sided single for the label, “Changes” / “Rosé”.
The band, fronted by Hannah Rodgers (formerly of Pixx), recorded the singles with Mike Lynsey [Tunng, LUMP] at his Margate studio .
Rolling in on a completely pure sound – strummed guitars, soft keys, mellow drums and a vocal that sounds like it’s moved in from a higher plane – “Changes” floats like it’s just opened the door on one of your best dreams and invited you back inside.
Hannah, Marsy’s vocalist said of the track: “Changes’ explores the effects of learned helplessness and the moment you decide to step out of it.”
A gorgeous four-minute wild walk through trauma and intense emotional arcs, the second track from the single, ‘Rosé’ takes tough subject matter and gifts it music that soothes like a breeze on a summer’s day.
Hannah added: “Inspired by Cerys Matthew’s ‘Chardonnay’, ‘Rosé’ explores trauma, dissociation and the domino effect of acting on intense emotions & being stuck in a pattern of addictive behaviors.”
Having nurtured their collective sound over the last year or two, the London based band released their debut double-Aside-single ‘Chance the Dancer’ and ‘Let No Other Change Your Mind’ at the end of last year.
A prolific songwriter since she was a teenager, Hannah Rodgers has always written “on my own in my room, just me and a guitar.” An exercise in catharsis and decompression, “I write from a place that’s hard to explain…it almost feels like a takeover, out-of-body.”
Having written songs continuously in the way others may keep a diary, she found herself sitting on a stockpile. “I had this backlog of songs that I didn’t really know what to do with. I’d always wanted to be in a band but I didn’t really know how to make it happen.”
Tentatively, she started sending the songs out to friends, road-testing them at small live shows, with different members “joining and leaving, coming and going” and when Rodgers hit upon the band’s current iteration, “it just sort of stuck.”
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