Try The Pie

***TRY THE PIE is the songwriting project of San Jose based musician/writer/artist BAN TUPOU. A scaled-back affair compared to last year’s Distraction, Rest is a seductive mix of sugar & citrus, as achingly sincere as Kim Deal at her finest. You can’t help holding your breath to hear how the story ends. "Alu'a" is the Tongan word for goodbye when you are staying and the other person is going. Rest is an album dedicated to this sentiment. As part of the bands SOURPATCH and CRABAPPLE, and as one of the creative forces behind the Think and Die Thinking Collective, Tupou has been a fixture on the South Bay’s DIY punk scene, crafting socially-conscious and catchy punk rock while helping creates spaces that are open, accepting, and fun—a universe of gender-neutral pronouns & queer-positive politics. It’s a record so intimate it feels almost like you’re eavesdropping. You unconsciously hold your breath to keep from being noticed. The songs are littered with household objects, embodied and alive. References to neighbors and roommates abound.