Taste Test: Cyrene unearths ancient Greek folklore for a ‘Time to Pretend’
The mysterious folk-pop newcomer employs Greek mythology for a statement piece on humanity.
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The mythos surrounding Cyrene, a pillar of Greek folklore, a huntress by trade whose entire existence was both elusive and well-documented, finds new life with a mysterious new folk-pop songwriter. Cyrene is her name, and everything from her promo materials and biography is shaded in vibrantly enchanting metaphors and sensationalized fiction. “Everything must run its course,” she sings, allocating life’s currency of what should or could be. There’s really no fighting what the powers that be have already destined for us in starry map-making, and that’s quite alright. The fascination here lies in the way the acoustic guitar provokes her trace-papered voice through a metallic, rainbow-beaded shimmer curtain. Hand claps tingle like icicles, and Cyrene’s voice, as lilting as it often is, lugs about a profoundly grim statement about our very human existence. “This is our decision / To live fast and die young,” she splits in two. And it’s utterly affecting.
“Time to Pretend” serves as the title cut to Cyrene’s new EP, out everywhere now.
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