Stream: Polartropica, ‘Crystal Ramen’

Daiana Feuer on August 21st, 2017

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Polartropica has begun releasing singles that will form a new album in the not-so-distant future, a follow-up to 2016’s EP “Astrodreams” (Lolipop Records). The band’s synth- and string-laden music conjures up a glitter-covered futuristic landscape where fantastic human-like creatures live their lives under neon clouds that rain Skittles from the sky. In this enchanted universe, people date, break up, eat noodles, sleep, dream and everything, but it’s all prettier to look at and shiny. Polartropica’s Ihui Cherise Wu’s newest song, “Crystal Ramen” has this magical, otherworldly sheen, but its subject matter is something we all know here on regular earth. She says, “I wrote it watching a friend’s relationship crumbling to pieces … when someone you love and trust slowly becomes a person that is distant and even harmful to keep in your life. The subject is dark, but hopeful and self-reflective.”

||| Stream: “Crystal Ramen”