Pink Sky are husband and wife duo Angelica and Ryan, whose journey into music is framed in grief and re-growth. The pair themselves encapsulate this in the form of a formative observation: “Sometimes life falls apart before it’s put back together”.
Two years into the couple’s marriage, Ryan was stopped in traffic and almost killed by a speeding semi-truck that hit his car. Following years of recovery, helped by Angelica teaching him how to paint, things improved. Sadly, a complicated and devastating pregnancy loss led to further pain… This time Ryan looked to share something with Angelica, gifting her a drum machine, enabling them to reconnect through music.
False Aralia is the result of that reconnection — a self-described “musical dam bursting”, as inspiration came from trading melodies. The song resonates with that connection, an emotional gravity running through the slow, synth-heavy melodies created by the pair. As Angelica sings, “…I lost you, and you were just too sad to stay around any more” it’s not hard to envisage that she is saying things here that may have been hard to articulate directly to Ryan. Those vocals loop, enmeshed within themselves as drums snap and clap.
The song is set to a similarly beautiful animation, created by Julie Seaward, and comes ahead of their fourth album, Total Devotion, which the pair are self-releasing next month. Check out False Aralia below: