In her latest single โBlackberries,โ Vancouver-based indie folk-pop artist Micae delivers a gentle gut punch wrapped in tender imagery and hushed melodies. The track, drawn from a deeply personal memory of love and loss, meditates on the way heartbreak lingers in the background of everyday life in city lights, freezer bags, and berry juice that stains more than just your fingers.
โBlackberriesโ opens with delicate guitar strums that cradle Micaeโs wistful voice as she walks us through a map of memories. The imagery is vivid and intimate, like a jacket on wet grass, wrinkly toes on a rug, a eucalyptus bath to calm the lungs. When the chorus arrives, so do the emotions: the guitar gains grit, the drums rumble, and Micaeโs vocals swell with aching clarity. Itโs restrained, but deeply felt, mirroring the subtle but sharp pain of wondering whether someone you once loved still thinks of you when they reach for a forgotten bag of berries in the freezer.
Co-written with Claire Miller-Harder as part of a lyrical image-based writing exercise, โBlackberriesโ proves just how powerful specificity can be in songwriting. Micae uses small, everyday details โ the Sharpie on the freezer bag, the calendar marking ninety days โ to express the inescapable way grief lingers, without slipping into melodrama.
As she works toward her debut album, It All Looks A Little Different Now, Micae transforms from a music therapist and educator to a storyteller of great memory muscle. Check out the lyric video on YouTube.
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Photo credits: Sadie Corne, Chiara Pirritano
Review by: Naomi Joan