Maripool
Maripool is the moniker of Lisbon-born, London based songwriter Natacha Simões, a self-described “one girl band” who works largely solo, writing and playing on her guitar driven, bedroom-pop arrangements.
Upon moving to London at 18, Simões got a job at Whole Foods and bought a guitar with her first paycheck. Having never played music before she then spent most evenings teaching herself how to play the music of her heroes from the midwest emo scene. Honing her craft in isolation, Simões would eventually fall upon what would become the world of Maripool - a captivating mix of melancholy that swirls between the delightful wonders of articulated shoegaze, and a witching hour state of deep-blue dreaming. Maripool’s debut single Blindness, released in 2021, received critical acclaim from the likes of DIY, So Young, and Pitchfork.
Her debut EP, It All Comes At Once, was released in 2022, via Practise Music. Filled with emotive charm and drawing from the canon of 2010s jangly guitar-centric pop, 1990s shoegaze and midwest emo. In 2024, she followed with her sophomore EP, a day that feels like nothing at all, released through Oakland-based label Smoking Room, further refining her ability to turn introspection into atmosphere.
“her music doesn’t quite sound like anyone else...blending shoegaze aspects with 90s indie rock flavours, all pieced together amid a bedroom pop sensibility.” Clash
“soundtracking days spent in increasingly sunny bedrooms, simultaneously bored but hopeful for the imminent freedom about to be restored.” DIY
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