Los Angeles-based dream-pop band Powder Pink & Sweet are excited to share their new single “My Fragile Heart” and it’s accompanying video. The song is latest track to be lifted from the band’s debut album Little Stories out November 4 (pre-order).
“My Fragile Heart” is a vulnerable and honest unpacking of emotions from songwriter Cris Verso. She captures those things we all feel but rarely say as she rallies her heart not to break one more time. With a gentle, swaying 6/8 rhythm and soothing lyrics, this song feels like a lullaby for our time. The delicate layering of guitars and soft sighing vocals draw you in and immerse you into a beautiful dreamy world.” The song premiered today at Flood Magazine and will be on all streaming platforms this Friday for any playlist shares.
On the song Powder Pink & Sweet’s Cris Verso says, “The song, to me, is partially about being really sensitive and possibly misinterpreting little words and cues. But also about warning others to be careful as I am a sensitive person and my heart can break easily with the littlest gestures or words. Fear and defense. This can mean romantic heartbreak or non-romantic heartbreak.”
“My Fragile Heart” follows the release of “Slightly Hopeful,” which was released last month. “Slightly Hopeful” explores the concept of being once bitten, twice shy, all carried along with catchy, melodic melodies and dreamy washes of guitar. The debuted WhiteLight // WhiteHeat and is available now on all digital platforms.
Conjuring nostalgic dream-pop, Powder Pink & Sweet is a band based in Los Angeles. Cris Verso formed the project in 2016, releasing the debut single “Blue Sunshine” the following year. Showing serene vocals and hypnotic guitar tones, “Blue Sunshine” set in motion a sound steeped in lush nostalgia, exploring aspects of dream-pop, shoegaze, post-punk, and new wave. The track saw airplay on radio shows like Check One Two on KLOS in Los Angeles, in addition to online radio such as DKFM and Big Sonic Heaven. Powder Pink & Sweet’s single, “Grey Day,” released in October 2020, beautifully blends textural guitars emitting a post-punk and shoegaze-friendly allure. Obscure Sound called “Grey Day” an “enjoyable success with a dreamy sense of nostalgia.”
Involved in the Los Angeles music scene for many years, Cris Verso formed Powder Pink & Sweet soon after the passing of her mother. The project became an outlet of expression for Verso, who comes from an artistic background and musical household.
“After my mom died in 2015, I mustered up the courage to develop it and become more serious,” Verso says. Playing with a stylistically eclectic cast of musicians in prior years, ranging from ska/reggae (The Cover-Ups, The Twi-Lites, Hi Fever) to punk (The Stalkings), to a local shoegaze post-punk band (The Sleeping Car). Verso marks the next step in her musical career with Powder Pink & Sweet, a natural stylistic output considering her long-time love for ‘80s post-punk and new wave.
A couple of years, and a global pandemic later, the band now has their first collection of songs, or Little Stories, to share: 7 songs that evoke everything from the light and playful whimsy of the re-mastered “Blue Sunshine”, to the atmospheric and ominous-sounding “Secret Garden.” Verso says of this collection “These songs represent the struggle to balance hope and positivity with an undercurrent of melancholia and heartache.”
