Rosina Bullen Shares Second EP ‘Trip to Tikal’

Rosina Bullen is writing her musical memoir, one song at a time, on Trip to Tikal, her second EP. The U.K.born/Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter draws inspiration from the confessional songwriting of Elliott Smith and Phoebe Bridgers, the tight pop of Fleetwood Mac and Kate Bush, and the forward-thinking sonic worlds created by Big Thief and Talk Talk as she shares four stories from her own life. “The thing that inspires me to write,” she explains, “is when something happens. Every song is linked to some specific event in my life.” So, it might seem shocking when over the suspended-animation feel created by warm electric-piano and guitar chords on opener “Trip to Tikal,” Rosina enters with the line, “Scent of smoke and seeping weed, while she was kidnapped by men to be a vessel for their cr...

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