Housewife - “Divorce”

Toronto, Ontario-based indie artist Brighid Fry, aka Housewife, returns to the blog with “Divorce,” an early glance into her forthcoming EP.

“Divorce” gets started with some slightly gritty chords from an electric guitar, wonderfully setting a euphoric vibe on which to build the rest of the track. Listeners do not have to wait long for Fry’s vocal to arrive– delightfully multi-layered, nostalgic yet modern, and immediately capturing our undivided attention.

Fry lifts into her upper register as a lo-fi beat emerges. At this point, it is quite obvious that the arrangement is about to expand to epic proportions, which is exactly what occurs just after the one-minute mark. Although the song was recorded entirely in a bedroom, it is not at all difficult to imagine it erupting from a stage.

Part alt-pop, part garage rock, “Divorce” settles itself right into our raw and lo-fi niche. It is filled with dynamic twists and turns, due in part to the fluctuation of the rhythm, as well as Fry’s emotional vocal performance. The final third of the song explodes with hard-hitting drums and a palpable, over-driven saturation across the top of Fry’s voice.

Speaking about “Divorce,” Fry adds that she “wrote it after experiencing really bad heartbreak that kind of blindsided me and completely uprooted me. It’s about not only mourning the person and the relationship you have with them, but also the life you were building together. It's about starting to rebuild and the struggle between needing to protect yourself, but also not wanting to be involved in something adversarial with someone who has hurt you.”

“Divorce” was written in about thirty minutes, but, once you’ve let it enter your ears, it is bound to stick with you much longer than that. The track was co-produced with Hans Li and is now available everywhere you get your music.

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