Apogee, the second single from Madeline Goldstein’s anticipated upcoming album, slated for release by Artoffact Records in late 2025, arrives as a heartfelt, glitter-drenched triumph.
Described by Goldstein as “a very personal song to me, a slightly slow build but perfect for crying on the dancefloor this summer,” the track is a journey through emotion and synth. In line with the artist’s signature new wave aesthetic, Apogee pairs lush vocals with pristine production.
Madeline elaborates: “This particular track is the first and only cowrite between Matia Simovich and myself thus far in our collaboration. We built it from the ground up in the studio (and literally from the grounds surrounding the studio, dragging wrenches across chain link fences to create the percussive elements etc). Apogee was a true effort of everyone in the studio, but ultimately the most personal song on the record for me, in terms of the narrative.
“In its most abstract, Apogee is about that moment or shift, when you feel you’re at the edge or the end of something, and all the ways in which the narrative of “that thing” can transform and mutate in your unreliable memory. It’s about the fear of the unknown; it’s about having no control against the inevitable and submitting. It’s a crying on the dance floor kind of thing.”
“there’s an emptiness to living, in the certainty of time, what had started now is ending, what is ending is sublime.”
Matia Simovich adds: “Madeline and I have had a wonderful creative partnership over the last couple of years. With “Apogee” it was an incredible experience to write something from the ground up, in the studio and in the moment, and it’s remarkable what came out of that chemistry.”
Madeline concludes: “It was a new step I wanted to explore writing something alongside Matia in the studio. I knew what we were capable of creating after our handful of years working together and figured it could only get better if we wrote together in that moment and I let myself be open to the collaboration.”
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