She is 21-years of age and from Norway and Irland. Starting her career as a singer-songwriter Tara Norme Doyle started writing tracks at the age of 11. After about 7 years she released her first two singles (“Down with You” and “Milk and Honey“). In 2022 she is back with a full record entitled “Værmin“. “Caterpillar” is perhaps one of the highlights of the album, and also the first track we’ve listened to from it. The track is, also, where she probably better showcases her capacity for making her own name and sonority.
From the second one, the track grows. Based on a haunting dark and powerful vibe, it mixes folk, with pop and rock. It finds in her raw vocal hooks a gorgeous storytelling vehicle, and a tragic one too. It reminds us of course of Florence Welch, but with the need to compare in terms of songwriting due to the gorgeous uniqueness of Tara’s project. There is a very big focus on the vocal power and on the spectacular construction that leans on melancholy (a bit Radiohead inspired?) and cuts it like a knife that feels armageddon-like but also positive in so many ways.
The progressive organ-led production makes everything even more epic, to the point that when it ends we can’t believe ourselves in the actual simplicity of its instrumentals. It is also a track about hopelessness and hope:
“Sometimes it seems to me as if my depression is actively trying to lull me into a false sense of comfort in times of perceived hopelessness. I wanted to explore my relationship with this state that is at once harrowing and oddly tempting, so I wrote “Caterpillar” from the perspective of personified depression.”
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