Taste Test: Merival totters full-stop with ‘No Brakes’
The folk singer-songwriter continues displaying her smart songcraft with her new song and video.
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It’s not easy to come out of blackness without thick grime sticking to your skin. “Oh, just get over it,” some chide you for feeling what you’re feeling. It’s like falling down a rabbit hole into Wonderland, but instead of a fantastical emerald countryside, it’s the Upside Down. Soot fills your lungs, and you soon lose consciousness and spiral down into a deep sleep. Perched in such a sunken place, Toronto’s exquisite folk singer-songwriter Merival (Anna Horvath) carefully unpins herself with the twirling flecks of her new song. “No Brakes,” punctured with a goofy visual that ultimately tightens the emotional pins further, is a two-minute tight-rope act overlooking her most authentic state. “I’d like to be myself again,” she warbles, positing that deep-rooted pain elicits the best art. Or does self suffer for art’s sake?
“No Brakes” is the latest single sampling Merival’s new album, Lesson, out June 21.
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