Tygermylk's newest single, "Confetti," feels like a jubilant explosion at the very heart of pop-rock storytelling, a triumphant turning on its head of all the familiar tropes of love, marriage, and outstanding success. A tribute to their own divorce, a hit of early 2000s memories, and Dolly Alderton's Everything I Know About Love, Tygermylk is a queer, euphoric response to the myths of existing inside somebody else's blueprint for happiness.
The song shines with guitars woven through unique synth-pop textures, a sound that's both reflective, familiar, and excitingly new. But it's not only the instrumentation that's arresting, it's the unflinching honesty that pulses through the minimal lyrics. Tygermylk confronts the silent devastation of meeting expectations that were never meant for them, an internalized patriarchy, small-town pressure, and carrying the weight of trying to make it work when your heart knows better.
"Confetti," it's an intimate confession swaddled in joyous sound, both bittersweet and lucent with liberation. Lead to colorful "Confetti" is struck with a voice packed with introspection and carefree nonchalance. Telling a personal story, yet relatable to anyone questioning accepted norms. There's a subtle tension between memories and forward motion, between the weight of the past and the drive for self-determination, that lends the track its subvocal human dimension.
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