We have all known music releases that have underperformed despite an obvious intensity of effort and beauty apparent in the work. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it is sometimes enough to cause bands to dissolve due to largely unrecognized efforts met with heart-crushing frustration. What do you do when you have created the finest masterpiece you can imagine and it is misunderstood, underknown, or outright ignored? Despite creating exceptional art, despite sharing to and cultivating a following, and despite working at peak passion, sometimes the timing is just off. Sometimes the world just steadfastly, unfairly refuses to listen.

“I’m a ghost in the daylight
On a crowded street
Wanna be part of someone’s dream life
I could murder the fantasy“

With her classic dark and brooding eyes, Gia Ford expresses just such sentiment in a Rolling Stone article: “I was getting frustrated at how difficult it was. I felt like I was doing everything correctly, but no one was noticing it or recognizing all the work that I had put in.” It is an all too common experience, oft-expressed in the Calvin Coolidge quote, “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.“

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“Diamonds dancing on the water
Skin is burning on your chest
Sipping on your cold Bacardi, you never know
I could kill you with kindness”

Ford, aka Molly McCormick, works hand-in-hand with her girlfriend Melony Lemon, aka Melanie Lehmann, incorporating her life partner’s visual art talents in blended realizations of music video inkiness. They are an intoxicating combination apparent in track “Poolside“, a memo to an internal dialog many of us frighteningly harbor.

The track parallels Ford’s foreboding eyes, incorporating a depth of field altogether raw and hauntingly dangerous. Expressing the mismatched give and take, the inequality between giver and receiver; an inequity easily resolved using the dankest of means, with dumb luck all too often the deciding factor of direction.

”In summer town, oh I’d love to watch you drown
Sinking in the moonlight (moonlight, moonlight)
Kiss me now, or I’ll blow your brains right out
Sitting by the poolside (poolside, poolside)”

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