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Anna Reidister is the Boston songwriter behind the project Nemarca, and after hearing that her debut EP “Falling All the Time” drops May 1st, I went digging. What I found genuinely stopped me in my tracks.
The Rollout
The rollout alone tells you something about how thoughtfully this project has been put together. Two singles come first, “Betsy’s Room” out now and “Little Yellow Pill” on April 3rd, before the full EP arrives in May. That kind of pacing feels intentional, like she actually wants you to sit with each song rather than just dump everything at once and move on.
What really got me was reading about where these songs came from. Reidister wrote them in her early twenties, right in the thick of the pandemic, and she describes it as a second adolescence, that strange in between period where your brain is still figuring itself out and the world outside is completely falling apart. I think a lot of people will recognise that feeling immediately.
Love Letter
Each track is apparently a love letter to someone specific, a friend, a family member, an ex, herself. She calls it almost like a memoir, and honestly that framing makes me emotional before I have even heard the full thing. Music that is written with that kind of specificity and care tends to land in a completely different way than music that tries to appeal to everyone.
Before Nemarca, Reidister was part of The Croaks, a Boston indie and DIY band with a reputation for sharp, character driven writing. You can feel that background in how she talks about her solo work. There is a real attention to storytelling here, not just vibes, not just pretty sounds, but actual narrative craft that comes from years of performing and writing with intention.
Her background outside of music is just as fascinating. She holds a BFA in Interrelated Media from Massachusetts College of Art and Design with a minor in Creative Writing, and her broader creative work covers folk art, poetry, performance and what she calls post digital objects. That sounds like exactly the kind of mind you want making intimate, carefully built music about love and time and memory.
I genuinely cannot wait for May 1st. If the singles are anything to go by, “Falling All the Time” is going to be one of those records that feels like it was made specifically for a certain quiet moment in your life. And somehow, it finds you right when you need it.
Listen To “Betsy’s Room” By Nemarca
He discovered the gem when he was 12 years old and still has it now, claiming it to be why he fell in love with music. He likes to play disc golf when he's not writing about music. He is a one-of-a-kind individual who is always the first to bust out his air guitar on the dance-floor.
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