I Get Into Trouble (LP | 2023)

by Maple Glider

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muschiosauro I love this album because it makes me feel as if I were in a warm, cozy, tiny room feeling perfectly comfortable, relaxed, blessed, with a bunch of long-time friends, reading verses that make little things universal. Favorite track: Two Years.

Whyte Rushan Live on Triple RRR Melbourne, so goode Favorite track: You At The Top Of The Driveway.

Los Angeles Loves You Easily one of the best albums of the year from the one of best artists of the decade. Favorite track: Don't Kiss Me.

jeromyr I can't get Tori's songs out of my head for a couple months now...melodies are just so fucking infectious.

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1.	Do You 04:08	lyrics	buy track
What is the big deal? We haven’t spoken since I crossed the border Were you expecting a handwritten letter like the one you sent to Jacob Right before we lost him for a while? You don’t know me, do you, really? It’s okay, pardon me, I’ll take the blame For all these years of shame It’s okay, it’s on my name I moved to the city and I didn’t come out I wish I could tell you what that is about But you don’t want to hear it and you don’t want to be near it, do you? I moved to the city and I didn’t come out I wish I could tell you what that is about But you don’t want to hear it and you don’t want to be near it, do you, really? Do you Is it so uncommon to forget to dot your little i’s and cross your little t’s until everything looks like an egocentric ‘I’, look at what you have done to me, me, me, me, me, misery I’m disgusted and entranced, dancing in the sickness of it You don’t know me, do you, really? It’s okay, pardon me, I’ll take the blame For all these years of shame It’s okay, it’s on my name I moved to the city and I didn’t come out I wish I could tell you what that is about But you don’t want to hear it and you don’t want to be near it, do you? I moved to the city and I didn’t come out I wish I could tell you what that is about But you don’t want to face it and I don’t want to explain it to you I moved to the city and I didn’t come out I wish I could tell you what that is about But you don’t want to hear it and you don’t want to be near it, do you, really? Do you I wish we could communicate It just gets so hard to relate I wish we could communicate It just gets so hard to
2.	Dinah 02:49	lyrics	buy track
I met Dinah at the Bible study when I was eight years old She was just a story to them, but to me she was more than they told They said “Be God fearing, don’t be messing with those non-believing” So I’ve been in the church making sure no one’s looking up my skirt But I do not feel safe here I wanna feel alive Do you thrive knowing that our God favours you over me dear? Dinah’s old man said he thought all of her girlfriends were whores In the end she got exactly what she’d been searching for When that man took her out for a spin She said no but he did not listen So I’ve been in the church making sure no one’s looking up my skirt But I do not feel safe here I wanna feel alive Do you thrive knowing that our God favours you over me dear? The same thing happened to me when I was only seventeen Do you think I got what I deserved? Do you think God's just trying to be seen? By us non-believers? By us non-God fearers? So I’ve been in the church making sure no one’s looking up my skirt But I do not feel safe here I wanna feel alive Do you thrive knowing that our God favours you over me dear daddy? Two witness rule, oh that’s cool Go ahead and play the fool while I do not feel safe here I’ve been in the church but the church is in my skirt I’ve been in the church but the church is in my skirt I’ve been in the church but the church is in my skirt And my skirt defines my worth in the church Dear daddy
3.	Two Years 03:29	lyrics	buy track
I’ve been wasting your time But you don’t want to know it Got the ball in my hands, I just don’t know where to throw it It is cold where I’m laying, and where I’m laying is right beside you It is cold where I’m laying, and where I’m laying is right beside you One year One year in I tried to leave and you said “Baby, please let’s sink in to this new thing I promise you’ll be loving me again” But I’m Still here Staring at the wall, hoping I’ll see beyond it But it’s never getting smaller than it is You’re a beautiful man, but I’m trapped in this heaven If the tables were turned Would I lay you your exit out of my arms and into the prospect of another? One year One year in I tried to leave and you said “Baby, please let’s sink in to this new thing I promise you’ll be loving me again” But I’m Still here Staring at the wall, hoping I’ll see beyond it But it’s never getting smaller than it is I’ll play this gently for you babe because I know that you don’t want to hear me say I’ve been so happy since I booked my flight to leave you I know you want me as I was Laying in the sand Playing with your hair In the middle of November Laying in the sand Playing with your hair Playing in the sand Two years ago Two years Two years in I tried to leave and you said “Baby, please let’s sink in to this new thing I promise you’ll be loving me again”
4.	FOMO 03:30	lyrics	buy track
It gets dark early here Flowers bloom on the other side of the sphere I’ve got a fear of missing out And I have it so severe I am not myself And I have not been all year My bank account is not healthy And neither is my sex life I’ve never felt so lonely With a person I’ve laid day by day beside It is cold, even in the springtime I wash our clothes, hang them out to dry On the inside of our room That we picked out for two My bank account is not healthy And neither is my sex life I’ve never felt so lonely With a person I’ve laid day by day beside
5.	Don't Kiss Me 04:04	lyrics	buy track
What age do you like me the best? Right before I put you to the test? Back when I absorbed everything you said? What age do you like me the best? Don’t kiss me My safety should not have to be earned I was just a baby until you made me into a lesson to be learned Sometimes my own body, doesn’t feel like my body But definitely don’t kiss me Sometimes my own body, doesn’t feel like my body But definitely don’t kiss me I want to know, does it make you proud? In an escalated version of self-consciousness I wonder, do you see me now? Do you see me now? Don’t kiss me My safety should not have to be earned I was just a baby until you made me into a lesson to be learned Sometimes my own body, doesn’t feel like my body But definitely don’t kiss me Sometimes my own body, doesn’t feel like my body But definitely don’t kiss me Sometimes my own body, doesn’t feel like my body But definitely don’t kiss me Sometimes my own body, doesn’t feel like my body But definitely don’t kiss me Sometimes my own body, doesn’t feel like my body But definitely don’t kiss me Sometimes my own body, doesn’t feel like my body But definitely just leave me, to be on my own
6.	You At The Top Of The Driveway 02:21	lyrics	buy track
Every time we speak I don’t want to hear the end of it Months that follow, I’ll be hanging on to words I hope that one day You will release All of yours fears On top of me And we’ll throw a party for your baby I bet they’ll be great at dancing We’ll go for walks Collect tadpoles in the rain Just like we did when we were the same age And mum was selling Avon We thought nothing was wrong ‘Til we grew into separate lounge rooms and so on The years that divide us The things that broke our trust Snuck in whilst we played between God’s hall and our house Still every time I look I see you at the top of the driveway In my purple dress Every time we speak I don’t want to hear the end of it Months that follow, I’ll be hanging on to words
7.	You're Gonna Be A Daddy 03:39	lyrics	buy track
Baby, you’re gonna be a daddy I really want to be the cool aunty like I am to my best friend’s dog Lately, I’ve had this worried feeling Like time is gaining meaning without you in my life I just want to get to know you I just want to get to know you Baby, I said I would protect you But every time I’m meant to I’m dressed up at the edge I just want to get to know you I just want to get to know you You’re gonna be somebody’s dad and I’m gonna be on somebody’s platform Playing songs that I wrote about you But I don’t know anything I don’t know anything I don’t know anything They’re gonna see right through me Through me Through me Through me I just want to get to know you I just want to get to know you
8.	For You And All The Songs We Loved 02:33	lyrics	buy track
It’s your birthday, and I’m screaming on the inside of my chest It’s a nice day and I’d like it if you’d help me to take off my dress I wish that you could love me the way I keep trying to But I know that if it’s hard for me, it is probably hard for you And you’ve said that you don’t like it when I make plans So put that song on, the one we love that makes us sad I’ll pretend I’m not going anywhere Sometimes I sit and I wonder if I’ll know you in one year’s time Maybe I’ll be in the country Maybe we’ll still be drinking wine But for now dear, it hurts too much for me to stay So put that song on, the one we love and just press play But for now dear, it hurts too much for me to stay So put that song on, the one we love, that makes us sad I’ll pretend I’m not going anywhere
9.	Surprises 04:04	lyrics	buy track
This weightless feeling doesn’t get me like it should I keep on treading, but the water’s just not good I still remember the fall at Casablanca How karaoke never felt like much fun after I wonder if you knew what you were going to do? Surprises Surprises Work just like they should You got me real good You took something that you could not give back again In your room, Auchenflower claimed a new bloom And I still had a video of you singing on my phone But by then, you had both tried to get on in ‘Til I was crying on your steps, humiliated by your friend I wonder if you knew what you were going to do? Surprises Surprises Work just like they should You got me real good You took something that you could You took something that you could You took something that you could not give back again It’s odd to say You were just a stranger, a stranger that I had met that day I wonder if you knew that you would be bringing me years of shame You were just a stranger, a stranger I met
10.	Scream 05:13	lyrics	buy track
Don’t meet me If you aren’t gonna meet me equal parts of the way Don’t say you miss me If you aren’t gonna kiss me, it’s too hard to live this way Whilst everybody else is sleeping in their beds I’m speaking to myself to get the words out of my head I want to scream I want to scream But everybody else is home Even nine to fivers don’t live outside their doors Anymore Anymore Anymore Anymore Time is getting stranger Resting like a baby, peering from its manger If I have to leave you Know that it’s because it’s hard not to be near you Whilst everybody else is sleeping in their beds I’m speaking to myself to get the words out of my head I want to scream I want to scream But everybody else is home Even nine to fivers don’t live outside their doors Anymore Anymore Anymore

about

For Tori Zietsch, who records emotionally direct and woozily romantic songs under the moniker Maple Glider, music has been an escape from a series of oppressive institutions: religion, enervating relationships, her own brain. Zietsch’s music has formed new pathways both literal and metaphorical; physical and neural, that have allowed her to step outside herself, and shake you—yes, you, the listener—by the hand.

At 14, Zietsch freed herself from her restrictive and deeply limited religious upbringing and at 15—after learning to play guitar from a chord book—she played her first show, at a skate park. After touring the open mic scene in Brisbane, moving internationally to the UK, and returning to Melbourne, she released her critically lauded debut album To Enjoy is the Only Thing in 2021, which Rolling Stone described as “one of the most accomplished debut albums in recent years.”

I Get Into Trouble is a thematic expansion of her debut, going into greater and clearer detail, as she delves back into her Christian childhood while deconstructing her relationship to her body and her sexuality, alongside concepts of consent and shame. “Dinah,” a deceptively whimsical ditty, is the album’s entry-point to these themes, and it’s as infectious as an earworm wriggling through Eve’s apple. “I’ve been in the church making sure no one’s looking up my skirt,” she sings, on one of the poppiest songs she’s ever recorded.

Throughout Zietsch’s second album, she draws similar parallels between religion and sexuality in novelistic detail, before landing on a note of hopeful optimism, and embracing a new life of peacefulness. “This album feels more like an opening up because there are things I wasn't feeling ready to publicly share through songs, but now I finally feel ready,” she says.

Ultimately, I Get Into Trouble is the sound of alchemized pain. In each song, Zietsch transmutes tribulation and confusion into clarity and deep insight. She combines the infectious folk-pop hooks of her debut with a sense of scape and scope. It’s tight in all the right places, free-form, wiley and compositionally eclectic, playful, and erratic in others. That experimentation was the result of letting the songs roam free in the room, jamming alongside fellow musicians [their names here]. ‘Two Weeks’, a song about feeling skeptical of your own feelings, is appropriately indecisive and shifty in its tone, tempo and structure. The pacing is masterful, jumping between taut grooves and slow, unfurling sections of lacksaidaiscal guitar and candied vocals.

The profound trust in her collaborators as well as her newfound confidence in the studio enabled Zietsch to venture down to the very basement of her being and flare up to the surface. On ‘Don’t Kiss Me’, one of the album’s standout tracks, she forgoes her typically mellifluous vocal style to quite literally scream her heart out. “That was a particular moment of heightened emotion,” she says.

Zietsch wrote I Get Into Trouble in multiple houses, in multiple states of mind, and across multiple timelines in her life. The result is a precise diorama of her life and mind, as she revisits her most difficult moments, while processing and healing in real-time. Often on I Get Into Trouble, her multiple timelines collide. It’s a convergence best represented by ‘You At The Top Of The Driveway’—a song she wrote under a mulberry tree reminiscent of the one in her childhood garden, and dedicated to her niece—Zietsch’s songwriting muse.

Her lyrical style is stark and unblushing. Reaching a hand directly out to her listener, Zietsch sings as though she has nothing to hide. “My bank account’s not healthy and neither’s my sex life,” she sings matter-of-factly on ‘FOMO’. “It’s kind of just a natural way of writing for me,” says Zietsch, “if it doesn't feel like honest to me, then I don't really connect with the song and then I don't really see the point of it.” In song, Zietsch embraces the opportunity to be plainly and painfully honest.

For Zietsch, songwriting is a kind purging; recording an attempt at bottling multiple explosions. “You know, it helps clean the brain out and allows me to sort of deal with things and understand things better.”

In understanding herself better, Zietsch continues her mission of self-emancipation through song. Her second album is a document of radical honesty and transparency. Listen, and free yourself alongside her.

credits

released October 13, 2023

‘I Get Into Trouble’ was produced and mixed by Tom Iansek at BellBird Studios in Naarm/Melbourne.
All songs were composed, arranged, and performed by Tori Zietsch, Tom Iansek and Jim Rindfleish.
Acoustic guitar on "Two Years" performed by Adam Heath.
Mastered by Steve Fallone at Sterling Sound, NYC.
Compiled by Tom Iansek and Steve Fallone.

Thanks to Tom Fraser, Jo Syme and Partisan Records for believing in me and the music and for all you’ve done to make this record happen, get it released, and to keep this maple gliding. Thanks to Tom Iansek and Jim Rindfleish for making a second album together!. Jim, you are very “cool”, a wonderful friend, really good drummer, terrible at selfies, welcome to hell. Tom, you are splendid company, and a unique producer, musician, songwriter and storyteller. Thanks for being so accepting of the ebb, the flow and the stillness. Congrats on being a #1 Dad to a new baby girl in 2023, and for having a wonderful sock collection. Thanks to Adam Heath for playing guitar on ‘Two Years’. I very much enjoy land gigs with you. Thanks to Bridgette, Malachi, Adam, Jim, Ollie and Julian for making me laugh so much. You are the best gliders. To Kara and Jacob, thanks for supporting me through the creation of this album, but also unthankyou to Jacob for fucking with my window wipers. Thank you to Kara again. I keep my little book of strengths close. Ci Ci, Good girl Natty, Bad girl Gigi, Immy, Sonny girl, I love and adore you and our friendship. Thanks again to Bridgette Winten for many things, including getting hives with me after shooting this album cover (with Mal, thanks Mal). Also to Ep, Robyn, Trig, and Gorgeous Girl. It was a pleasure to piss in your long grass. Thanks to Bridgette Winten for the pics, Madison Griffiths for the illustrations and Ismael Pieter for the cover design. Thanks to my mum, Tracy, for allowing me to hold space for my truths and for always supporting me on my journey with music. You have given so much, and you truly shine. You are my number one girl. Thanks to Joe for so many things, but especially for sitting in nature with me listening to birds sing and for pointing out all the beautiful things in the world that I find beautiful too. And also for doing so much laundry. My love to Louise, Ben, Ez and Roars. A second home. And to Caleb, calls with you and Lennox are my favourite times of the year. I love you. Lastly, thanks to everyone who worked on, listened to, wrote about, played, covered, bought or supported the first Maple Glider record ‘To Enjoy is the Only Thing’ in any way. I am glowing with gratitude for your kindness and generosity. I hope you enjoy this one. xoxo

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