Nelson-Based Indie Band Parallel Park Release New Single ‘Good Terms’
Parallel Park are a five-piece indie band from Whakatū/Nelson, New Zealand. They write songs with ‘feels’ – sonic explorations of life’s complexities. Relatable themes of love, loss and self-discovery are woven through the lyrics.
Good Terms is about breaking up with someone on Good Terms but then seeing that person moving through the world and doing well, which is painful and makes you feel a bit resentful. There’s a tension between wanting the other person to be happy and still feeling upset when they appear to be doing well. We like how the lyrics make digs at the other person while trying to be unbothered and still calling it ’good terms’.
Guitarist Kahu shares “We’ve been starting uni and taking gap years and it’s been harder to find time to write new songs, but Good Terms came together really quickly while we were home in the mid-year holidays. It’s easily one of the best songs we’ve written. We tried to keep it lean and not have anything superfluous in it, and we think we succeeded.”
Parallel Park will be together again later in the year and playing New Years Eve in Nelson.
Muzic.net.nz wrote “Parallel Park are creating something very different, unique, and of incredible quality in terms of songwriting, performance, and production. To call it indie pop rock is like putting it into an existing box when it’s something unique that deserves to proudly stand alone.”
The band have played together since intermediate school in 2017 and comprise Maisie Lucas (Drums), Zac Irving (Bass), Florence McNabb (Vocals), Ethan Carde (Guitar), and Kahu Sanson-Burnett (Guitar, production). All members contribute to songwriting. Highlights for the band include playing a sold out Growing Taller album release show, opening for The Beths, being guest band at the Rockquest National Final, and performing at summer festivals. Their self-produced debut EP Parallel Park Vol 1 was released in December 2022 and their album Growing Taller released in February 2024.
