We only came across Nara’s Room a few days ago, but their name has clearly been circulating for a while in New York’s underground scene. The Brooklyn-based quartet, led by Nara Avakian (they/them), have built a reputation for their sound that blends glitchy digital textures with a hazy, Y2K pop sheen. There’s something both intimate and disorienting in the way they shape their songs, and we’ve loved losing ourselves in their brand new single, “Tucson.”
The track is taken from their upcoming new album Tearless, thoughtless, which lands May 15 on Mtn. Laurel Recording Co., following their debut Glassy star. Across eleven tracks, the band leans into questions of identity, memory and inheritance, carried by Avakian’s reflective songwriting and the group’s layered, dreamlike production.
“Tucson” is a slow, hypnotic seven-minute ballad that drifts between past and present, as it explores diasporic longing and intergenerational trauma with a restrained, poetic touch. Lines like “I sing in the Tucson living room dreaming my diasporic dreams / Neither here nor there I cry” or “If I had a son in Tucson, he’d hate me” land softly but stick with you. They unfold in this hazy space where memories, places and emotions blur together, with that Tucson living room coming back again and again like a quiet anchor. As Avakian explains, “This song was partly inspired by the final scene in the Linda Ronstadt documentary, where she is singing with her family in her Tucson living room. It’s about intergenerational trauma and the Genocide of the Armenian people, and my attempts to reconcile the past, present, and future marked by my family’s loss of their home and their identity.” The song also comes with a conceptual video directed by Cella Raiteri and Avakian.
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