Half Waif

Nandi Rose Plunkett of the band Pinegrove also records as a solo singer-songwriter under the name Half Waif.  The New Yorker described her music as "globe-twirling prism pop in search of a home."

On her song Ordinary Talk, she sings about the heaviness of ordinary moments, the tears and chores and self-doubt and small talk that comprise being a person. 

"Recognizing your own ordinariness can be depressing, or it can be a relief. In Ordinary Talk, I wanted to honor and celebrate my ordinariness as an incredible tool for making me feel less alone. The song is a reassurance that feeling bad - or 'ill' - isn't something that needs to be corrected. There's a depth of experience that comes from feeling emotions at their extremes. And it is, in fact, this vivid, varied messiness that makes us human and ordinary."

The video, a collaboration with director Kenna Hynes, tracks the progression from isolation to communion as it moves from a troupe of theatrical characters to the neon lights of a house party.