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Half Waif & NOIA Live Preview: 1/16, Sleeping Village, Chicago

Half Waif; Photo by Logan White

BY JORDAN MAINZER

We've been fans of Half Waif, the synth pop project of singer-songwriter Nandi Rose, ever since we heard her tremendous 2018 record Lavender (one of our favorites of that year). When we last caught up with Half Waif, she had just released her fifth full-length Mythopoetics, an existential exploration into the inevitability of death and pain of generational trauma. Rose had planned for Mythopoetics to be a minimal piano album, but it blossomed into her most textured effort yet. Now, on her latest, See You At The Maypole (Anti-), Rose faces loss head-on. Like Mythopoetics, See You At The Maypole had other initial intentions. Rose, planning a family and then becoming pregnant, contemplated a gentle collection about motherhood. But when she found out that the baby she was carrying had died, and then afterwards, that she had retained pregnancy tissue, likely due to not being prescribed the proper abortion pills because of regressive FDA regulations, and that she'd need another procedure to physically move forward, let alone mentally, she knew she had to write to rise above feelings of brokenness.

Mythopoetics songs like "Take Away the Ache" and "Orange Blossoms" imagined a future where Rose had prepared for the passing of loved ones. For See You At The Maypole, she returned to collaborator Zubin Hensler to flesh out songs inspired by sickness and death that had already occurred, where grief was an exit sign on the highway rather than intangible or even imagined. The result is yet even more layered than Mythopoetics, songs rife with strings, reeds, horns, and a chorus. But as much as See You At The Maypole's notes, lyrics, and arrangements are, per usual for Half Waif, deliberate, yet rich, Rose's decision to intersperse voice memo interludes and fold in raw takes among the elaborated presentation gives it an earthbound quality that makes the subject matter hit all the harder. On the wiry, percussive "Big Dipper"--an unexpected rock moment for an artist with an otherwise lush aesthetic--Rose sings, "I've got blood in my mouth / And I cannot shake the feeling / That there's no one looking out." On an album that finds solace from tragedy in community, Rose gives validity to those moments where you spiral anyway. Given the context, it's not surprising that See You At The Maypole feels like Half Waif's most honest record yet, but that Rose arrives at places of reflection and perspective through song is a balm for us all. "All the world is turning around like a figurine," she sings at one point, and that much is certain.

NOIA; Photo by Max Lakner, Styled by Yuri Tachi

Half Waif plays Sleeping Village tomorrow night as part of this year's Tomorrow Never Knows lineup. Opening is NOIA, the experimental pop project of Brooklyn via Barcelona composer and engineer Gisela Fullà-Silvestre. NOIA's been releasing music for almost a decade, but March 2023 finally saw her drop an album, gisela (Cascine). With songs in Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, and English, and NOIA collaborating with like-minded electropop artists like Ela Minus and Buscabulla, gisela is at once traditional and forward thinking, timeless and existing within the modern day. Given that some of gisela's songs deal with similar themes of death and loss as those of See You At The Maypole, and like Rose, Gisela uses field recordings to ground her expressions within tangible stories, the billing is fitting. Tickets are still available at time of publication; doors at 7:00 P.M., show at 8:00 P.M.

[longlivedead]

the sakura trick mangaka has graced us with sulemio doujin (again)

[yuripng]

[littlemeltymarshmallow]

Grandparents got me yuri for Christmas.

[darthluffy]

Stellar Blade, the touching tale of two girls trying to cope with the deaths of their girlfriends. Lily by developing a crush on Eve, and Eve by chopping everything she meets into tiny chunks.

[seieifsetsuna]

[yuripoll]

SEASON 4 LOSERS ROUND 2

NOTE: A Kiss for the Girl's Scars contains bloody violence, unhealthy relationships, sexual assault and minor character death. I Love You So Much, I Hate You has sexual content and depictions of infidelity, as well as touching on internalised homophobia and misogynistic expectations of working women.

[postarie]

[joyce-stick]

So, Majime Girl to Seishun Lingerie is very really good.

It's about cute girls who really like looking at each other's undergarments and it's very cute and earnest and the girls are very wholesome sweet perverts who appreciate lingerie and are very good yuri friends

Just wanted to tell everyone.

They just really like it

[yangbojian]

Yuri (1980s)

[aestheticallypleasinganimeboys]

Yuri Dandy - H-Game: Kessen! Otome-tachi no Senjou 3 ~Dengeki Sakusen! Senka wa Ace no Na no Moto ni~

[jewlwpet]

Btw, for anyone who likes tragic lesbian media like Dear Brother/Onii-sama e, I highly recommend Blue Drop... well, the anime specifically.

From what I can tell, the franchise as a whole seems mediocre at best. But I loved the anime for what it was, which is a tragedy, which isn't everyone's cup of tea. Even besides that it certainly has flaws, but I thought it was really good overall when I watched it, which admittedly was a long time ago.

[lightyakami]

does uke and seme also apply to yuri or is there other terms

hello this is such a great question.

i honestly don’t think most yuri has the specific seme/uke dynamic that’s prevalent in yaoi. people often use seme/uke interchangeably with top/bottom, but functionally it implies a lot of additional stuff regarding the character’s role both in and out of sex, their appearance, their personality etc. like in english they’re loanwords that are basically never used outside the context of a very specific genre of m/m fiction. afaik there’s no yuri equivalent because there’s no widespread need for one.

this being said i don’t think it would be wrong to use in a yuri (or het) context, especially if you do run into that specific kind of dynamic.

[humanfleshdoll]

𐙚 failed princesses

[saiyef]

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