Mozart's Sister's debut EP, Dear Fear, was one of my favorite things of last year; marking the solo debut of ex-Shapes & Sizes bassist/vocalist Caila Thompson-Hannant across three songs of unique-sounding futurist pop. Despite the blessings of her royal Grimeness, the world's been sadly slow to twig to the Mozart's Sister magic.Case in point: the arrival of a fourth Mozart's Sister song should've been heralded with a blogospheric fanfare, but instead "Chained Together" has slipped quietly into the world. The song picks up on the lyrical themes of the EP —on-again/off-again relationships and their attendant paranoia, social media as relationship midwife, the fleetingness of happiness— and delivers yet another brilliant pop-song.
"Fighting over email," Thompson-Hannant carols, "what a modern love tale!" Her love-tale is both about love-lost and the ties that bind past lovers. It's a break-up song that initially seems like it's clinging to what once was, but harbors a mean streak of relationship 'hand,' in which powers comes from having an ex-'s old cell phone in your possession. And, more pointedly, from writing a song about. "You may have broken up with me," Mozart's Sister sings, "but you're still in my head, see?/And we'll go on together/in this song forever."
Mozart's Sister, "Chained Together"
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