Safe Then Sorry by CIAO MALZ - Audio Antihero [AAH035]

Safe Then Sorry

CIAO MALZ

A 4 track indie pop ep (12m 35s) — released December 6th 2024 on Audio Antihero

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"If you had an EP, CIAO MALZ would listen."


Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist CIAO MALZ (Malia DelaCruz) has announced her debut EP, 'Safe Then Sorry,' to be released via Audio Antihero Records (Frog / Magana / Nosferatu D2 / Cloud) on December 6th. It will be preceded by the free/pay-what-you-want Two Feet Tall single on November 15th. Her music first reached the Audio Antihero label when she issued a cover of Frog's You Know I'm Down sleeper hit in 2023, and the label then offered to work with her on this debut.


Inspired by artists like Elliott Smith, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Men I Trust, she combines witty introspection, informed by her experience as a young woman of color, with a layered musical bounce. While her self-released demos earned supporters at NPR: WFUV, Loud Women, and others, this is her most unrestrained, eclectic, and complete work to date.


'Safe Then Sorry'ranges from the breakneck Indie Rock frustration of Two Feet Tall ("Drinking all the milk and missing all the three-pointers / Think about it still, find new ways to disappoint her") to Alt. Country on Bad for the Bad Guy ("I feel like Mary Shelley in 1818 / Getting bored and do something extraordinary / Strike the pen to the paper, making sense of it later") and aching Folk Pop for Take Me Out of Here, ("Occasionally my patience leaves the room / Here comes that busted attitude / That I can't stand how the sky's blue / But what I would do, to give it to you") andGold Rush("Got no temptation, to sit around have the same conversation / Going in circles, going berserk / There's nothing that I have not heard").


In addition to numerous other collaborations at her Lower East Side studio, Malia DelaCruz has also been seen playing bass for the acclaimed Sister. group (with Hannah Pruzinsky, Ceci Sturman, and James Chrisman) since 2023.

Artist Quote – 'Safe Then Sorry' EP:

"Safe Then Sorry is a rest stop on the path most traveled. I wrote the bulk of the EP after work, these stories and characters came to me subconsciously and asked to be spoken into existence. These songs are about the unlikely connections we make, how they're simultaneously inexplicable and meaningful. I work through these contradictions with unpredictable melodies, explosive choruses, and with the recording process itself. We did everything on the fly to capture as much raw emotion as could fit in the four walls of the basement studio. I wanted the project to feel how it did when I was messing around on GarageBand on my first computer — unrestrained." – Malia DelaCruz (CIAO MALZ)

I would love to pencil in a premiere for December 5th. - Caleb Campbell Under the Radar Magazine

DAMN HONESTLY I love this! It's beautiful. - Mitch Mosk Atwood Magazine

This is great! We're on it. - Jon Doyle Various Small Flames

I love the single - Marc Schuster Abominations

I dig this. This is as sweet as a very sweet thing could be. - DJ duMars WSUM 91.7FM (Red Planet)

Good news! I would like to share Ciao Malz - Two Feet Tall as a blog review, in a Spotify playlist, in an Apple Music playlist, in a Deezer playlist, in a YouTube playlist and in a SoundCloud playlist on Indie Shuffle - Jason Grishkoff Indie Shuffle

Such a great song! I really enjoyed the overall mood to - Ju Arede Phonograph Me

Dreamy and smooth…I love the do-it-yourself approach and the introspective take throughout. - Hannah Schneider Unheard Dreams

I would definitely be interested in speaking to Ciao Malz! The FFO MJ Lenderman and Slow Pulp is so intruiging! - Firebird Magazine UChicago

I've already added 'Two Feet Tall' to the show for the 15th onwards so a session would fit in nicely. - Nuts on the Radio Ocean City Radio / Bombshell Radio / My Indie Radio / Sound of Spitfire Radio /

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