![]() The track’s brevity paired with its mellow, guitar-laden production makes it endlessly replayable. The lyrics of “Church” are noticeably sparse, with the song only offering one verse and a chorus that gets sung twice. You describe it like a flower when it blooms but Maybe it’s this music that’s got me in the groove I think they only see the two of us, can you blame ‘ em ? While the track doesn’t contain any revolutionary sounds, singing, or songwriting, the sum of its parts works to create a record that soothes the anxieties of someone like me who worries love songs may be a lost art. The fact that someone could hear this song and still fix their fingers to degrade its author isn’t necessarily surprising (all artists have detractors), but it’s certainly disappointing. The sole love song on the four-track collection, “Church” struck me with a warmth that I didn’t expect from an artist so polarizing. ![]() Ironically, the song originally appeared as a demo on her 2018 debut SoundCloud EP, To Die For, meaning there’s a world in which I could have been a Mariah the Scientist fan from the beginning. ![]() But after appreciating the portrait she posted alongside a Tweet announcing the March 11 release of her latest EP, I decided to give Mariah’s music a chance.įrom the moment I heard “Church,” the very first song on the 24-year-old’s new project, Buckles Laboratories Presents: The Intermission, I felt dumb for not having tapped in sooner. Nonetheless, I didn’t listen to them because I don’t have time to listen to everything, and I’ve done this long enough that I don’t really feel the need to pretend otherwise. Before seeing that video, my only knowledge of Mariah the Scientist came from scrolling past two projects of hers on Tidal and noting she may have the most subtly creative album covers I’ve seen in recent memory.
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