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Photo by Bridgette Winten

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Praise for MAPLE GLIDER

To Enjoy is the Only Thing LP
Double J (Feature Album)
PBS FM (Feature Album)
3RRR (Album Of The Week)
Edge Radio (Feature Album)
FBi Radio (Packet Album)

“No other folk artist has had a fully-formed and breathtaking debut album as
Melbourne singer-songwriter Tori Zietsch”
VICE

“Zietsch’s sparse, haunting folk hammers home the ephemerality of life and the inevitability of leaving… a statement of survival, a falling away from comfort to find oneself”
The Guardian (Best Australian Albums of 2021)

“The Melbourne-based songwriter’s debut is sparse and hypnotic, drawing connections between her experiences of leaving a relationship and leaving a religious upbringing”
Pitchfork (7.4)

“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”
Bob Boilen (NPR)

“For someone so new, she really knows how to mainline straight to your heart and inhabit a very special emotional space really quickly”
KCRW

“They say a debut album is a lifetime in the making. ‘To Enjoy’ vaults Maple Glider straight into the pantheon of beguiling modern indie folk/rock acts with Julia Jacklin, Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker and Aldous Harding”
NME

“Some artists grab you from the first moment you hear them. For many music lovers, Tori Zeitsch has been one of those artists… Grasping the beauty and brilliance of Maple Glider’s debut album will take no time or effort. It’s a refined collection of deep songs written and played with enviable maturity and flair”
Double J

“One of the best, most hauntingly beautiful voices we’ve heard, Tori Zietsch
aka Maple Glider is our one to watch”
10 Magazine

“A vulnerable, visceral, and altogether enthralling experience, Maple Glider’s debut album is as radiant as it is raw”
Beat Magazine

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Maple Glider, the project of Naarm/Melbourne-based singer-songwriter Tori Zietsch (pron. like ‘peach’ with a z), is today announcing her very anticipated second album I Get Into Trouble, out October 13th locally on Pieater and on Partisan for the rest-of-world. To celebrate, she shares her second single ‘Dinah’. LISTEN + WATCH HERE + PRE-ORDER LP HERE.

‘Dinah’ refers to the bible story “Dinah Gets Into Trouble”, where a young woman is victim-blamed for being sexually assaulted. It’s the most sonically “pop” tune we’ve heard from Maple Glider, and it explores the double standards within Zietsch’s own experience growing up in Christianity, and the accusations levelled at “non-believers” whilst the church itself was not a safe space.

Joining the previously released ‘Don’t Kiss Me‘ on her upcoming album I Get Into Trouble, praised by Rolling Stone as “proof of Maple Glider’s uniqueness” and “a slow build collossus” by Stereogum alongside support across Our Culture, Frankie Magazine, Happy, Pedestrian, triple j Unearthed, FBi Radio, SYN, PBS and more. Today’s release, ‘Dinah’ comes with another irreverent video, made with principal creative collaborator and live bandmate Bridgette Winten, full of colourful costumes and ridiculous props (see pink vibrator as religious preacher’s microphone!)

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Says Zietsch, “For me, ‘Dinah’ is the scariest thing I’ve ever put out. It’s probably the most pop feeling song I’ve released, but it’s really quite an angry song. I have felt incredibly disturbed and frustrated and sad in the process of writing and putting it together. I wanted the video to be fast paced, colourful, and full of energy, the same kind of riled up energy I had when I wrote the song. But it also had to be silly, because I can’t help that.”

Like her 2021 debut To Enjoy is the Only Thing, we can expect another collection of intimate vignettes of Zietsch’s life on I Get Into Trouble, with memories of childhood, whether tender or accusatory; and the end of relationships. She also shares new life, new love, and the longing to reconnect after endless lockdowns. It was recorded with the same small team as its predecessor – Tom Iansek (#1 Dads, Big Scary, The Paper Kites) producing and mixing, and touring member Jim Rindfleish (Mildlife) on drums.

To Enjoy is the Only Thing earned over 22M streams, a performance on NPR’s Tiny Desk, Stephen Colbert’s #PlayAtHome series, as well as praise from Pitchfork, NPR Music, Paste, KCRW, Gorilla vs Bear, Consequence, VICE, triple j and Double J, NME, Rolling Stone, Frankie, 10 Magazine amongst others including Album of the Week placements nationally. Her music has been described as “hypnotic” (Pitchfork) and “sublime” (PAPER), and as Stereogum has put it “some voices in indie just hit home”.

Earlier this year Maple Glider also released a hypnotic cover of Shania Twain’s classic ‘You’re Still The One‘. 2023 will see Maple Glider tour overseas for the first time, with two London shows already sold out. Current listings available at mapleglider.com with more shows to be announced.

MAPLE GLIDER
I Get Into Trouble LP
Oct 13 via Pieater / Partisan Records
PRE-SAVE / PRE-ORDER HERE

‘Dinah’ is out now via Pieater / Partisan Records,
Buy/stream it here.

TOUR DATES

Mon 17 Jul – The Forum – Naarm / Melbourne (supporting Arlo Parks)
Wed Sep 13 – Servant Jazz Quarters – London, UK (Sold Out)
Thu Sep 14 – Servant Jazz Quarters – London, UK (Sold Out)
Sat Sep 16 – The Green Door Store – Brighton, UK
Mon Sep 18 – Prachtwerk – Berlin, Germany
Wed Sep 20 – POPUP – Paris, France
Thu Sep 21 – Botanique Witloofbar – Brussels, Belgium
Fri Sep 22 – Reeperbahn Festival – Hamburg, Germany

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