MAPLE GLIDER’S DEBUT ALBUM ‘TO ENJOY IS THE ONLY THING’ IS OUT NOW ANNOUNCES NEW TOUR DATES + WATCH NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR ‘FRIEND’

Maple Glider, the solo project of Tori Zietsch (‘peach’ with a z), today announces new tour dates for Warrang / Sydney and Naarm / Melbourne for this September, in celebration of her debut album, To Enjoy is the Only Thing‘s release. See all tour dates below + TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE. 

Released via Pieater and Partisan Records (ROW), To Enjoy is the Only Thing is an album full of brittle intimacies, effortlessly balanced instrumentation and not a note wasted. In the singer-songwriter tradition, the Maple Glider project is centred around the lyrics, exploring deeply personal themes and often serving as a self-catharsis, brought to vivid life by the beauty of Tori’s artistry and wry sense of dark humour. Over plucked acoustic guitar or deftly weighted piano chords, Maple Glider shares vignettes of her life; growing up in a restrictive religious household, falling in and out of love, interstate and international relocations, the new perspectives travel can bring along with the alienation of being away from the familiar. LISTEN HERE.

Spoken only as she could, Zeitsch describes the collection as, “walking past tinsel covered trees in mid-September, swimming along the calanques in the south of France, car-bonnet frost, darkness at 4pm, lightness until 10 pm, a muted feeling, the perpetual grey fog that swallows the Silver Coast, the colour red, this ugly green dress, red wine, red blood, red lips, red is the colour of the cardinal’s robe, Switzerland, my mother’s diaries, a coroner’s report, the sun on my face, the end of love, “To enjoy is the only thing. BTCH$!”

Today’s announcement follows the recent music video for the single ‘Friend‘, directed by Athina Wilson of Eye to Eye Productions. Filmed in a grand, Golden Era-esque hall with Maple in performance regalia, she stands alone under the spotlight, singing about a decaying friendship, whilst interspersed are echoes of a suburban childhood. Speaking to its theme, Tori explains: “This song is for an old, good friend. In some ways, it feels like one of the most personal songs on the album. I knew I wanted to write it for a long time before I finally did. It’s a reflection of some of my experience in the music industry from the age of sixteen or so before Maple Glider existed, and the story of a friendship intertwined inside of each of our shiny music dreams. It was turbulent and unbalanced, and we both became a little undone within it. A lot of hurt and healing came to the surface after years of close collaboration, and ‘Friend’ is the result of that.”