Toronto’s Grizzly Coast just released her new LP, Staying Power. The latest single from the album is “Two Balloons.” When she started Alannah Kavanagh started the project in 2020, she was playing confessional acoustic songs. “Two Balloons” shows how far she has come with a full band arrangement and uptempo indie rock vibe. The lyrics still show the same depth that Kavanagh has always had. The song is about Kavanagh and her husband. She explains “I liked the idea of calling us two balloons. I thought about kids at a carnival who get so excited to get a balloon, and then just forget about it and let it fly off into the skies, forgotten. The lyric ‘we are two lost balloons at heights they never knew’ uses that imagery to portray how we were left behind by others, but in finding each other we reached new and unexpected heights.”
Grizzly Coast “Two Balloons”
