She says on the track, “The opening lyrics describe a scene I imagined from history, when Ferdinand Magellan arrived in the Marianas in 1521. It was the first known contact between Pacific Islanders and Europeans, and the clash of worlds was violent. The rest of the song is a reverie on someone I loved and lost. The feelings blur into other losses I grieve – like the elders that helped raise me and have passed on. Those memories and the accompanying ache, it all runs into each other. I started writing the groove with the guitar, and then I found that a marching beat made it more interesting and carried it forward. The dynamic – between conflicts, internal and external – is something I hoped to convey. Life is so complicated. Like you could still miss someone who also caused you tremendous pain. You could still appreciate what those connections gave you, even after you had to move on from them.”

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Rosa Bordallo is a singer-songwriter based in New York City who makes a heady mix of psychedelic dream pop that veers joyfully between the eccentric and the whimsical, and the soul-shaking and transcendent for which emblazoned in the new single ‘Home’.

“When I was writing ‘Home’ it started as a mournful protest song, with influence from singers I admire for being haunting and poetic such as Kristin Hersh, Jessica Pratt, Aldous Harding and Kate Bush, however I decided I wanted a bigger sound that was defiant and full of energy, so it became more of an anthem, like a cathartic and triumphant return from battle,” says Rosa.

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