Sarah La Puerta and the beautifully warped "Tangerine & Yellow"

 

"I know how you feel, I know how you feel. You love to say how I feel..."


I like music that mentally makes me take a step back and that is what happens when I listen to "Tangerine & Yellow" by New Orleans born, Texas raised and rural New York based, artist, musician, singer-songwriter, calligrapher Sarah La Puerta. I mean the song is wide eyed beautiful but also has a warped quality. Not carnival mirror bent but maybe like looking through glasses with prism lens. The pretty keys, lo-fi beat, plucky bass and purposeful synth strings feel like they are sauntering while looking at the beautiful blue sky but maybe not aware of the dirty puddles on the ground. Sarah's voice feels at once grounded in an innate self awareness but also floating in the ether of things surreal. 

"Tangerine & Yellow" fades out maybe too soon but it's brevity leaves you wanting more. You can hear more on Sarah's solo album "Strange Paradise" that just dropped this month. You will be graced with more divergent pop sometimes swimming in pools of serene madness. Listen to the "A Gun" and you will see what I mean. It feels sort of like a tropical Hope and Crosby flick twisted with a Luis Buñuel sense of odd horror. Or the spoken word-esque dark story of "Chocolate Cake" that references Poe and the sour taste of a bi-polar lover. The tale is dark and the cake might be full of sweet retribution all done up with a samba beat. Or the precious 50's-ish "Ice Cream Sunday" where Sarah cajoles and spins a tale full of pulp fiction dark adorations "the Coney Island of Love" and darker questions "where were you when I needed you?". 

Yes, Sarah's songs mentally make me take a step back. Deadly, absurd in the best way, cosmetically darkly smart, twisted, funny and coyly beautiful, her songs make me smile too. They make movies in my head that I wish I could see on the silver screen.  

-Robb Donker Curtius

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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:

https://www.instagram.com/sarahlapuerta/

https://sarahlapuerta.bandcamp.com/

Sarah La Puerta is an artist, musician and calligrapher who works in different dimensions. 
She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, raised in Texas and now resides in rural New York. Her favorite tree is the weeping willow and her favorite flowers are water lilies.

Her solo album, Strange Paradise, is available via Perpetual Doom at perpetualdoom.bandcamp.com 

Sarah La Puerta, Psychedelic / Freak Folk, Indie Pop, Dream Pop, lo fi experimental, darkly comedic, lounge pop, bedroom pop, "Tangerine & Yellow", solo album, New York, "Strange Paradise",