Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist CIAO MALZ (Malia DelaCruz) details her debut EP, Safe Then Sorry, dropping December 6. Describing the project as “a rest stop on the path most traveled,” Malz shares that its stories emerged after long workdays, shaped by subconscious sparks.
“These songs are about the unlikely connections we make, how they’re simultaneously inexplicable and meaningful,” she explains. “I work through these contradictions with unpredictable melodies, explosive choruses, and with the recording process itself. We did everything on the fly to capture as much raw emotion as could fit in the four walls of the basement studio. I wanted the project to feel how it did when I was messing around on GarageBand on my first computer — unrestrained.”
CIAO MALZ has also dropped the fiery debut single, “Two Feet Tall,” a breakneck indie rock anthem fueled by frustration. “‘Two Feet Tall’ is about the feeling of losing an inch every day you put off making that call you really need to make,” she shares. “It’s the pile of clothes growing bigger and feeling yourself getting smaller. Regardless of the overcompensation, the mountains to hide behind — that unsettling feeling persists. I wanted to evoke the feeling of stagnation while everything else is in motion, so the lead on this track quivers in front of the persistent drums that push the scene along.”
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