After connecting with former Bowie producer Tony Visconti last year for a harmony-rich EP, Mina Walker and Kelley Dugan are returning this summer with a new Daisy the Great full-length building on these ideas with the help of boygenius producer Catherine Marks. Following the release of the light-on-its-toes lead single “Ballerina,” the duo returns today with a second single called “Mary’s at the Carnival” which, equally true to its name, maintains a sense of transfixing wonder as Walker and Dugan’s layered and harmonized vocals gently raise and lower like the movements of a carousel.
“‘Mary’s at the Carnival’ is about witnessing a pure and innocent love after losing yourself in a complicated and heavy relationship,” the band shares of the single, which bolsters its whimsical themes with a gentle twee-pop instrumental. “It celebrates the ability to see the beauty around you with childlike wonder and the hope of being able to rediscover that perspective. We wrote this song with our bandmate Nardo [Ochoa], each of us contributing a different section. It all came together in the end in a carousel-inspired harmony stacked round.”
The track features an Alice-in-Wonderland-esque music video that sees its protagonist enter a portal to a tiny empty venue wherein Daisy the Great—or creature stand-ins for the band—perform the track. Check it out below, and pre-save The Rubber Teeth Talk here ahead of its June 27 release.
