TIFFY featuring Sadie Dupuis - "IRB"

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Photo by Steph Larsen

We've been fans of Boston's TIFFY for a while now, but Tiffany Sammy has something wonderfully special with her latest single. Besides featuring Sadie Dupuis (Sad13, Speedy Ortiz) on guitar, "IRB" takes her 90's inspired indie rock goes pop sound and mixes it with some 60's girl group melodies. This song is a delight, with everything mixing together in a way that feels both familiar and completely fresh at the same time. This is the kind of song that's even going to make the descendants of Puritans who occupy the Boston live music scene start dancing. Everything about "IRB" is infectious, and you're going to thank us for this one being stuck in your head for the next week or so.

Tiffany Sammy says of her band's latest single:

“I wrote this when I felt very burnt out by playing music and being in a band. There’s that saying ‘Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life’ well that’s just not true! I love making music and performing, but it is work and energy you expend. All the minutiae just fried me. There’s another famous saying ‘write what you know’ well most of what I know is being in a band.”

You can listen to "IRB" below. For more on TIFFY, check out the artist's website.

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