Experimental Singer-Songwriter Marcyline Announces New Album ‘Treegiver’ With Haunting Lead Single “The Clearing”

NYC-based experimental art-pop singer-songwriter Marcyline is set to release his debut album Treegiver in February of next year. The 9-track collection, written by multi-instrumentalist Chris Paraggio, and co-produced by his good friend Drew Stier, was written during the lockdown, and deeply inspired by the concept of “worldbuilding” and the oddities that come from letting your surroundings fill with imagination.

The album’s first single, “The Clearing”, builds on the feeling of claustrophobia during a late-night, using lush, ethereal textures to build a vivid and dense indie rock track that barrels forward. Inspired by a “bizarre” stroll through the woods that Chris and Drew took during a cold, winter night, “The Clearing” captures the unpredictability and unnerving sense of feeling disoriented. The story goes that the pair found a path in the woods that led to a strange circular open area that looked and felt liminal and unnerving (to anyone who has watched a scary movie, that is generally a haunting foreshadowing).

The song instantly opens the narrative with Chris singing, “Last night my brand new best friend asked if I was up for a little walk she said I wanna go to the overpass at night I wanna live somewhere that’s safe/We went to go there is someone behind me there’s someone on my left there is something behind me/And as the camera swings around for the wide shot I’m stuck being ground to dust“.

Adding to the inspiration, Chris continues: “Those words capture a moment where I was extremely tired and paranoid, and was pretty consistently feeling a strangely intense fear of something watching me or being right behind me.”

Get lost into the song below: