“Thieves” by Tangerine

"Thieves" by Tangerine is Northern Transmissions Song of the Day. The track is off the Los Angeles duo's album You’re Still The Only One
Tangerine photo by Photo Credit: Miró Justad

Los Angeles band Tangerine, recently shared new single “Thieves,” a track off their forthcoming debut album You’re Still The Only One, available October 25th. “”Thieves” reflects on a relationship with a troubled soul – someone who always has an enemy to fight or a fist to raise, even if it’s against nothing and they’re just whiffing at the air,” Marika explains. “It’s about seeing that person lost in the bigness of the world, recognizing both our connection and the distance between us.” “Thieves” follows the album’s lush, expansive lead single “Timeless.”

“After a death in my family, I found myself in a process of negotiation with the universe,” Marika explains. “It became an urgent question for me, this idea of how to reconcile with a world that is unreliable, one that seems to reject any simplistic sense of right or wrong, or of meaningful narrative, that we try to place on it. It’s like something just sort of broke open, and I found myself unable to look away from the primal forces at work in the world. I’m trying to tease apart the beauty from the ugliness.”

Tangerine was formed in 2012 by Marika Justad (vocals, guitar), Miró (drums), Toby Kuhn (guitar, production), and former bassist Ryan Baker. The band relocated to Los Angeles as a trio in 2017. Soon after, they joined Bleachers on the road as main support for a North American tour and worked with Zach Dawes (Lana Del Rey) and Mikey Schuman (Queens of the Stone Age) on singles “Sly Moon” and “Fever Dream.” But the family loss in 2019 brought everything to a halt, and the band took a much-needed break to process and grieve. In the stillness that followed, Justad and Kuhn began to write what would become their first full-length album as a duo.

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