Make U Mine opens like a glitter doused grunge record — guitar notes, and bass guitar-led melodies plucked out as clattering drums roll in, all obscuring the vocal. Yet, it is quickly clear this is something more pop than a conventional grunge record. As we arrive at the verse, Morgen’s vocals are front and centre in the mix, an electronic kick drum pulsing as that glossy vocal depicts the complexity of a relationship that never quite found its footing.
The relative sheen of that verse is what really allows the chorus here to rip — applying a polish-grunge-polish take to the Pixies’ age-old quiet-loud-quiet model as Morgen shouts, “I wanna make you mine… again”. A bridge only adds to the high-octane pleasures, heavily filtered samples cutting through like a mangled electronic guitar. The result has all of the desperate energy that comes with needing something you can’t have.
Her first track of 2023, Make U Mine was produced by Morgen herself, together with Joe Mason, Matias Mora and Cary Singer. Describing the song, Morgen says:
“I wrote ‘Make U Mine’ about the nostalgia of a friendship I lost through unsaid feelings and miscommunication. It’s about the veil that time puts on memories, making them seem better than they actually were, and how that leaves you longing for something never even happened.”
Check out Make U Mine below, and look out for the forthcoming EP of the same name, due soon: