Maple Glider is Naarm/Melbourne-based singer-songwriter Tori Zietsch.
On debut album To Enjoy is the Only Thing, written whilst Zietsch lived in Brighton in the UK, she compiles a striking set of vignettes from her life; growing up in a restrictive religious household, falling in and out of love, cross-country and international travel, longing, alienation and more. Moments both unremarkable and life-altering, but always deeply felt, brought to vivid life by the beauty of Tori’s artistry and wry sense of dark humour. Elaborating further on her vision for the project, Zietsch describes: "To me, To Enjoy is the Only Thing feels like walking past tinsel-covered trees in mid-September, swimming along the calanques in the south of France, frost on the hood of a car, darkness at 4pm, lightness until 10pm, Sibylle Baier’s Colour Green, Devendra Banhart’s Ma, Adrianne Lenker’s a-sides, a muted feeling, the perpetual grey fog that swallows the Silver Coast in Portugal, an ugly green dress, the color red, red wine, red blood, red lips, the red of a cardinal’s robe, Switzerland, my mother’s diaries, a coroner’s report, the sun on my face, the end of love."
Praise for Maple Glider
“Beautiful” - Gorilla vs Bear
“towering lyrical delivery” - UPROXX
“a piece that tries to unravel the intricacies of a religious upbringing and a relationship, both of which kept her from being her true self" - NPR Music
“beautiful and devastating” - American Songwriter
“a sweet, smoky voice which she likes to keep at a whisper” - Consequence of Sound
“delicate, dreamy folk... fans of Sharon Van Etten's more stripped down, spare early
work should find plenty to like here” – BrooklynVegan
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