We’re A Perfect Disaster

Gilligan Moss featuring Rebecca & Fiona “Ferris Wheel”

Gilligan Moss sound extremely familiar but are in fact something that feels very new to me – a sort of retro music seemingly made to bring back to the wistful twee vibes and aggressively cheerful grooves of the 2000s. The aesthetics on their debut record have not been gone for long, but just long enough to feel both potently nostalgic and vaguely wrong, like we’re not quite ready to reconnect with this sort of joyful innocent optimism just yet. “Ferris Wheel,” a song that feels particular to the early Obama era, is even premised on nostalgia on a lyrical level as Rebecca & Fiona reminisce on a failed romance in a carnival setting. The relationship isnt necessarily what’s being romanticized here, though – it’s more a yearning for a sense of mindless freedom and seemingly unlimited possibility. In that sense, it’s a perfect song for the waning days of the pandemic, as people impatiently wait to regain that feeling and jump impetuously into anything like good old-fashioned fun.

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