Long Beach artist Cali Pally has pried open a time capsule in the form of his latest release, "Schoolyard Baby." It's like flipping through an old yearbook filled with smudged ink and folded corners and the echo of the first heartbreak, that musty whiff that you carried into adulthood, and still holds some lingering scent, decades later.
Penned over two decades ago, "Schoolyard Baby" has the deep-cut honesty of youth with the professional sheen of an artist who has allowed the song to evolve with him, a nostalgic ballad-banger that seeks to capture the whirlwind of feelings associated with those formative years and the bittersweet recognition that some love stories need to unfold in the hallways of memory.
And such is the nature of Cali Pally's universality, everyone has a memory of storytelling and tender melodies. "Schoolyard Baby" turns those private moments into something universal, yanking listeners right back to that awkward, wonderful age when love seemed like the entire world. With this release, Cali Pally makes the case that some stories are worth holding onto, no matter how long they've been waiting, and worth hearing.
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