Indie pop singer-songwriter Fiji Blue shares his upcoming album’s lead single “Peppermint,” dedicated to the “effortless love” he feels for his wife, a key creative inspiration for the album. The tune feels like a warm embrace, wrapping up nostalgic naïveté and puppy-dog romanticism into a three-minute running time.
“This song tells my story of effortless love, like riding a bike downhill, feet off the pedals type of love,” Fiji Blue shares. “I was beginning my process of writing with new producers (for the first time ever) & was lucky enough to cross paths with Matt Kahane. Typically, it takes a few sessions for me to open up and feel comfortable, but the day we made this song, it felt like I had found a new best friend. The creative process flowed effortlessly, just like the story we were trying to tell. We completed the song within a few hours, and I’ve been playing it every day since.”
Born Trevor Dering, Fiji Blue finds creative solitude in the mixture of guitar-heavy storytelling, drawing inspiration from artists like Stevie Ray Vaughan & John Mayer. After accumulating over 300 million streams across three EPs Glide will serve as Fiji Blue’s first proper album.
Each of the 10 songs on Glide are captivating snapshots of Dering’s songwriting prowess, ruminating on loss and love both platonic and romantic. They’re achingly personal yet universally relatable. To tell these stories, Dering decamped to Topanga for a weeklong writing retreat, penning a song a day and getting lost in rich production – an ascendant helium balloon of synths, skittering electronics, and widescreen harmonies cut with the warm humanity of more organic instrumentation like piano and acoustic guitar.
In addition, the LA-via-Phoenix artist announces new tour dates across North America. Are you vibing with “Peppermint”?
