Kevin Bronson on November 8th, 2021

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L.A. duo Tangerine — Seattle ex-pats Marika Justad and Toby Kuhn — make subgenre-fluid indie-pop seemingly gliding on gentle breezes and good intentions. They have been slowly working on music to follow up their 2018 EP, “White Dove,” releasing the buoyant single “The Coldest Winter” earlier this year and following up this week with the equally winning “See You There.”

The song has its roots on a riff Kuhn was playing on an old Spanish nylon-stringed guitar, the duo says. Justad ran with it. “I was inspired by Toby telling me about drinking in town squares and water fountains as a kid visiting Italy and Spain with his parents,” she says. “I wrote it at a time when I was feeling fairly anti-social, but knew that I wanted to break out of my shell. I wanted to transport myself temporarily to this magical scene where I could see all my friends at a fountain and drink wine with them and feel carefree and anxiety-free.

“I actually wrote the lyrics right before the pandemic, and as things began to lock down it was weird how perfectly they dovetailed with the loneliness that everyone was experiencing around the world. I think of it as a light-hearted song, but there’s a bittersweetness at the core. Fun fact: The audio of people laughing and talking in the intro and outro is a combination of a recording of my sister Jade’s birthday party in Seattle years ago, and a phone video I took at a restaurant in Seoul of my family eating.”

One thing is for sure: There’s nary an anti-social bone in the song’s body.

||| Stream: “See You There”

||| Also: Watch the video for “The Coldest Winter”

||| Previously: “Cherry Red,” “Fever Dream”