Despite all the heaviness, the Australian singer/songwriter never loses her buoyancy.
It may be the strict religious upbringing, but Tori Zietsch aka Maple Glider doesn’t seem like a person who freely lets out her feelings. Instead of screaming, she sings: “I want to scream.” And sounds controlled, exhausted. In general, her captivating singing belies the fact that I GET INTO TROUBLE is about tough topics. “Sometimes my body doesn’t feel like my body,” repeats the Australian to grungy guitars in “Don’t Kiss Me”. Zietsch deals with young people’s experiences with abuse of power and objectification and almost breaks your heart.
In “FOMO”, on the other hand, you think you have heard something wrong when it says: “My bank account is not healthy / And neither’s my sex life”. There is a huge gap between secular content and siren-like singing and dark dream folk. Musically, Zietsch touches on the melancholy pop of Lana Del Rey and the reduced gothic odes of an early Aldous Harding as well as contemporary and airier pop areas. The result is a subtle interplay of light and shadow that doesn’t need screaming to be powerful.