MAPLE GLIDER RELEASES NEW SINGLE ‘BABY TIGER’ DEBUT ALBUM ‘TO ENJOY IS THE ONLY THING’ OUT JUNE 25 VIA PIEATER / PARTISAN RECORDS

Having announced her debut LP To Enjoy is the Only Thing, today Maple Glider shares the fourth cut from the album, the delicate ‘Baby Tiger‘, premiered by Matt Wilkinson on Apple Music 1 overnight. Listen + watch HERE.

Over unison, raindrop-weighted nylon string guitar and piano (reminiscent of Erik Satie’s ‘Trois Gymnopédies’), Maple Glider dwells in a mist of apathy, taking a faceless lover. Protectively watching over her in her listless state is Coriander the sharehouse cat, featured proudly in the music video below. 

“Baby Tiger was written soon after I’d returned home from Brighton,” Tori shares. “I was really struggling with my mental health, but I was going out and kind of using dating as a distraction from dealing with it. It never really worked. I’d just end up feeling worse when I was alone. Coriander hates closed doors. She’ll always want to know what you’re doing on the other side. It kind of became comforting to hear her scratch at my door. It was something that felt constant and unwavering and regular at a time when I was a bit vacant. Her energy made me feel lighter.”

She continues, “I’m very detached from the ‘man’ I address in the song, but I beg for him to comfort me. Though I am feeling unwell, I am pretty certain that it is temporary. I know that “I’ll come back to me soon”. My housemate says she sees this as a kind of happy song because it features Coriander, and I really love that perspective, because even though I was in a bad place when I wrote it, there is an element of hopefulness.”