Artist Close Up: Tangerine Bring 80’s Inspirational Pop With White Dove

Tangerine’s White Dove is giving me 80’s inspirational pop. From Berlin to Wilson Phillips, the 80’s was filled with fuzzed, buzzed tracks that made you want to clap your hands and sing “hold on for one more day.” White Dove is no different, and brings to 2018 what we miss about 1988.

For LA-via-Seattle indie pop trio Tangerine, White Dove is about yearning, nostalgia, female friendship & the messiness of finding yourself in your 20s.Composed of Korean-American sisters Marika & Miro Justad and Tobias Kuhn, Tangerine was written in a time rising artists know too well: “the nothing period.” This is a time when you are working more at a 9-5 than singing, when creating music feels like a mindful headache, and shows are not booking. This period happens to everyone, but Tangerine is inspired by this “un-inspiration,” which is why it goes straight for the happy.

Joy seems steamed and pressed through tracks, “Cherry Red,” “Local Mall,” “Lake City,” and “Monster of The Week,” and Marika’s voice swirls like a cotton candy being made. For being a record about finding yourself through a nulling time, her vocals twinkle with optimism and resilience. In a way, she, like the album, is proof that picking yourself up is innately a hopeful process. You do not rise again if you truly believe you cannot or are not worth taking a stand. Thus, lyrically and sonically, White Dove is a guitar led soundtrack into the synth-fantasies we need to imagine when rebuilding ourselves. For More Information On Tangerine And White Dove, which comes out on October 19 Click Here.