Mary Strand returns with a song that feels like a breath of ocean air and a groove that shakes off the chaos. On her latest single, "Costa Rica," she joins forces with Ryan Smith of Soul Asylum to deliver a brisk, high-energy hybrid of garage rock and power pop that practically forces you to dance your worries away.
"Costa Rica" establishes its demeanor with a driving rhythm that makes it feel fit to move like a plane lifting off for somewhere warmer, somewhere gentler. The track's bubbly energy reflects that escape, wherein each predicament becomes another retelling to chuckle about between drinks. Strand's twinkly yet punchy vocals ride over jangly guitars, big sharp melodies, and a garage rock edge that keeps things raw and honest. And Smith's signatory guitar is stroking baked in, which makes the unfinished song crackle with just the right measure of grit and sunshine.
Based on an authentic life, a not-so-perfect family trip to "Costa Rica," Strand flipped the script on frustration for the irresistibly upbeat anthem. It's only a tiny thing in the grand scheme of life. And when the guitar-driven hooks arrive, you believe it. "Costa Rica" is the song that sounds as you lower the windows, let the wind tangle in your hair, and decree, perhaps for the first time in a while, that none matters.
With "Costa Rica," Mary Strand gives us not a song but permission. Permission to release, to dance in the warp and the weft, to quit sweating the small stuff, and to turn up the volume on the things that bring us to life. The chaos, the overthinking, the shady twists of life's plans? They're just part of the ride.
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Thank you so much!!
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