“This song was written in a time where I was really struggling,” Campbell says. “I had come out to my mom about Candace and she stopped speaking to me. I wrote this 4 or 5 months into our estrangement.” She continues, “This was the only song I was able to write for a while. It’s about sadness and experiencing a new kind of heartbreak. It’s also about the inability to see or feel anything but my sadness. I’d never experienced anything like it before, and there wasn’t anything else for a long time.”

Quarrels adds, “I always tap into the floaty loneliness that is the heartbeat of this song. Britt was grieving so much during this time, and I was grieving a certain loss of innocence as well. I lost so many friends in the birth of this love. It was shocking and hurtful, but we gripped each other tighter and kept it moving. This song captures that feeling so well, both with our harmonies and the lyrics.”

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Alongside the announcement, Mermaid also shared a fresh single and video, ‘Purr.’ The track is a grooving, tip-toeing neo-soul/funk fusion that merges into a confident, sonically experimental stomp. As dissonant harmonies climb on a staggering beat, the track explores Campbell and Quarrels’ feelings of powerlessness in a society where no one is listening. The accompanying music video features the duo dancing in sync with black and white footage projected onto them, as if they are existing between the realities shown in the footage.

“‘Purr’ started with our cat Splatt…she has this very loud, deep purr. It developed into this silly song that we’ve mumbled over for a long time without knowing what it was about,” the duo explains. “Then George Floyd happened, and that’s when the lyrics came to be. It’s a song that started off quite playfully but became more so about what was happening in the world and being stuck inside the house and ingesting all this darkness through Instagram. Even outside of the pandemic, it’s about feeling stuck and seeing everything that’s happening in the world and wanting to scream about it all the time…But also feeling like there’s nothing you can do and that the powers that be aren’t listening as much as they pretend to. It’s a song about being lost and stuck in the system.”

Iridescence:

1. Block 37 (Intro)
2. Wanna Be Your Lover
3. Ori Yeye Yo
4. On A Cloud
5. Purr
6. Broken Silence
7. Curse Of The Femmes (Interlude)
8. Boundaries
9. Disassociate
10. Young Ram (Interlude)
11. Find Me
12. Thrivin’
13. Dreamer

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Released right in the heart of Pride Month, the impossibly catchy earworm highlights Campbell’s and Quarrels’ harmonizing vocals before devolving into a rocking chorus that’s sure to have listeners hitting replay.

The band says, “‘Boundaries’ is a nostalgic, 90’s high school movie sort of mood. The song was written about the feelings we had for each other right before we were able to fess up – it was the kind of yearning that borders on obsession and we’re not afraid to admit…I guess…” They continue, “The song is vulnerable in its way, speaks of desire and the festering corrosion that happens when you might feel something that is unrequited.”

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