Alena Marie welcomes music fans to a world where stars reflect the human condition in her just-released self-produced single, "Rabid." Mixing the raw intimacy of indie rock with the story-song particularities of folk, this song takes a straightforward high-school poem and transforms it into a fully formed alternative ballad that resonates on both personal and cosmic scales.
Originally a poem the band wrote in high school about the sun and the moon, "Rabid" has evolved into a song as complex as the universe it describes. In her eloquently metaphorical storytelling, she mirrors human relationships to rhythms that shimmer with the same unpredictable beauty and occasional unforgiving distance as love itself, like the sun and moon, both breathtaking in their blinding glare and climaxing brilliance, yet sometimes impossibly painful to touch.
The alternative rock instruments provide a driving force that grinds against and fuses with the lighter folk components, reminiscent of the song's central motif of mixed emotions. This is a lyrical meditation on love, disunity, and the silent havoc of the heart. "Rabid" is an emotive journey for any listener in search of a ballad that's intimate and vast, one that resonates long. Alena Marie is proof that even the dullest of classroom poems can sprout into a universe of feeling, and "Rabid" is a living testament.