138: Thanya Iyer - Low Tides

We were mesmerised by Thanya Iyer's previous album, Kind, featuring her and it in one of our printed journals upon its release all the way back in the heady summer days of 2020. Soulful, colourful, kaleidoscopic pop music, it was a deeply personal collection of songs and Thanya is finally following it up, with a brand new full-length album just announced for a late April release via the brilliant Topshelf Records.

Titled TIDE/TIED, the album is said to expand upon that previous palette, expanding their sound with focused flourishes: "she, her band, and a cohort of guest musicians embark on a new way of moving on TIDE/TIED, prizing collective care and communal healing as antidotes to the dissonances of living in a colonial, capitalistic world," the introduction writes.

Bound with the announcement comes 'Low Tides', the album's first glimpse – and it's a gorgeous, mesmerising re-entry. Full of unique shapes and sounds, the track bursts and then recoils, flashes warmth then returns to the shadows, somehow keeping its momentum while never forcing a way through the colourful fogginess of its ambiguity. Fantastic and fascinating.

Thanya Iyer on 'Low Tides':

Low Tides is a story about finding our way through our lowest moments with the quiet strength and hope needed to carry us forward when everything feels impossible. It's about waiting for the tides to turn as we move through the feeling that nothing will get better, with the freeze, despair, numbness, and stagnation that often come with it. Living in those spaces is so scary because you lose your ability to dream and imagine that something different can be possible. All we have left to do is trust.

Pre-order the LP via Topshelf here

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