SONG PREMIERE: Coma Girls Drop Spirited Lo-Fi Space Rock Via “Aquariums”

On September 2nd, Coma Girls—the creative project of Chris Spino—will release No Umbrella For Star Flower, a twelve-track collection of maximalist, shoegaze-influenced folk/rock that finds Spino laying bare his struggles with addiction, love, depression, and more without ever coming across as alienating or self-centered. There’s a nuanced conversational tone to Spino’s lyricism that is simultaneously uniquely descriptive and universally relatable, a balancing act that can be credited to the dedication to pop music that has stayed steadfast at the core of Coma Girls’ music.

Glide is premiering the freak-folkish “Aquariums” that conjures an MGMT accessible space rock vibe while reelin’ in the weightlessness indie of The Flaming Lips. While the song may radiate with warmth, it does hold a rather important message about the impact that addiction and alcoholism have on an addict’s loved ones and the necessity of a support system for those in recovery.

“When you’re in it and you’re drunk and you’re drowning, your loved ones are there with you,” says Spino. “I had to come to terms with that in myself after seeing my actions reflected in someone else, I just realized that we’re all here in it together and we need each other to pull out of this shit.”

Throughout No Umbrella For Star Flower, Spino lays bare his struggles with addiction, love, depression and more without ever coming across as alienating or self-centered. There’s a nuanced conversational tone to his lyricism that is simultaneously uniquely descriptive and universally relatable, a balancing act that can be credited to the dedication to pop music that has stayed steadfast at the core of Coma Girls’ music. 

“I started this project with the idea of playing pop music the way a punk band would,” says Spino. “But now, I’m more focused on just writing songs without any preconceived notion of genre. I’m just doing things exactly how I think they should be done without anything else in mind. I like to think that if I stay true to that and make things I really believe in, then other people will feel that too.”

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