Brooklyn singer-songwriter Alexandra Antonopoulos, aka Honeycrush, has just shared her latest single “Fruit is Year Three,” off her upcoming EP The Drowning Room.
On a quiet summer evening, Alexandra Antonopoulos, aka Honeycrush, joined a few friends to celebrate their fourth year together. She was vaguely aware that, according to tradition, each year a couple is married corresponds with a different type of gift, but that night she learned that the third-year traditional gift is fruit.
The track’s lyrics echo her shock; giving a gift that would deteriorate in just a few days struck her as such a bad omen. The idea that we are blissfully ignorant of the bad luck we might wish upon others rattled around in her brain for a few months. She thought about how often love is set up to fail, whether by accident or because a thought in the back of your head is ignored until it’s too late. She envisioned a giant, putrid bowl of moldy peaches that had once flowered, then withered, then rotted.
When she sat down to write The Drowning Room EP (out March 8th) — about the suffocating nature of love, whether in presence or absence — that late-night conversation came back to her.
As the song’s frigid, minimal guitar-based production progresses, the perspective of the narrator moves from introspection to outward examination of the world. The sonic landscape becomes unsteady as tension rises into something jagged and icy. On “Fruit is Year Three”, Honeycrush wanted to convey a concurrent sense of beauty and terror, which to her is a lot like love.
What do you think of “Fruit is Year Three”?
