Marian Hill

This is the oldest song on our upcoming album "why cant we just pretend?"

We wrote it exactly three years ago during one of the sessions for our "was it not" EP. 

We started writing it in a way we never had before - in the room, no beat.  Sam sang a melody as Jeremy snapped his fingers softly. And then we just had fun.

"Trippin out" felt too weird for the EP. Its hard to justify a strange intense record without a catchy chorus on a five song project in the streaming era. Through the years our most experimental songs have often seen the fewest streams. So we added it to the pile of oddball MH outtakes and moved on.

The following year as we put together our fourth album in the middle of a global pandemic we found ourselves compiling a list of song contenders and stumbled back onto "Trippin Out". It was still perhaps the strangest thing wed ever made. And together we decided that no matter what anybody else said, this song needed to be on our album. 

We are so grateful to platforms like Sound for building a music experience where peculiar curiosities can flourish. We hope you enjoy this ear candy as much as we do - thank u, as always, for listening.


Photography by Israel Riqueros
Produced by Jeremy Lloyd
Written by Samantha Gongol and Jeremy Lloyd
Vocals by Samantha Gongol
Mix by Justin Lehman
Master by Chris Gehringer