Maple Glider releases delicate new single "Baby Tiger"

"Baby Tiger" is the fourth track to be shared from To Enjoy is the Only Thing, following last month's "Swimming", "Good Thing" and "As Tradition".

The recent Partisan Records signing, real name Tori Zietsch, says of the single, ""Baby Tiger" was written soon after I’d returned home from Brighton. I was really struggling with my mental health, but I was going out and kind of using dating as a distraction from dealing with it. It never really worked. I'd just end up feeling worse when I was alone. Coriander hates closed doors. She'll always want to know what you're doing on the other side. It kind of became comforting to hear her scratch at my door. It was something that felt constant and unwavering and regular at a time when I was a bit vacant. Her energy made me feel lighter. I'm very detached from the 'man' I address in the song, but I beg for him to comfort me. Though I am feeling unwell, I am pretty certain that it is temporary. I know that 'I'll come back to me soon.' My housemate says she sees this as a kind of happy song because it features Coriander, and I really love that perspective, because even though I was in a bad place when I wrote it, there is an element of hopefulness."

To Enjoy is the Only Thing came together after Zietsch relocated to Brighton from Melbourne in 2018. After working on solo material, she returned to Melbourne in late 2019 and worked with Tom Iansek (Big Scary, Hockey Dad), who produced and recorded the songs that make up her debut album.

Zietsch adds of the album, "This is what the album looks like to me: 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 10pm, 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…"