Each Measure Feature: Michellar

FEATURE

Michellar got me with this one. The sweet and steady new single “Intersection” is a swingy and wonderfully amorous love song that’s already made it onto two of my summer playlists (namely “bikeride”, and “summer 2025”.

Michelle Bond, or Michellar, is a multi-faceted artist mainly orbiting around music and visual art. Her entrancing visual works are often used as album covers; abstract and energetic bursts of color and movement to match her equally creative musical oeuvre. It’s inspiring alone to see someone fully appreciating the beautiful entanglement of creative disciplines, and even more so to hear the truly genre-fluid music she continues to produce. “Intersection” is yet another track of hers that showcases her ability to surprise and delight as an artist.

 Originally from San Francisco, this latest single was recorded with producer Tobias Wilson at his recording studios in Staffordshire, UK. Together they’ve marked Michellar’s first poke into a pure folk and americana sound, complete with rattling tambourines, the gentle twang of a banjo, and guided along by the grand sound of that nostalgic drum. Michellar claims inspiration from groups such as Mumford and Sons and The Lumineers, a traceable influence without overpowering. Instead, Wilson and Bond find a new sound, dangling the promise of a good old-fashioned satisfying love song with an edge of danger. 

A song of seeing, desiring, and being together, the love story between lyrical characters seems to have started with a glance….and led them to this ambiguous intersection. The lyrics strike a quirkiness as they allude to a very literal intersection, or perhaps point towards a more internal understanding of life’s liminal phases between romances. Summed up with the paradoxical “craziness perfection,” the two voices pierce through cheery instrumentation with ease and affection.

Ok, one last thing about this track. The percussion is a rattly jumble of all sorts of sounds, many steadily ticking along with an almost giddiness. The bubbling banjo stays alive, that grand old kick, and that splashy cymbal keep the spirits up in that playful, giggly feeling we all want from the fabled love-at-first-sight. I definitely will be inviting this track with me to many summer adventures.

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