\"MUNA is magic. What other band could have stamped the forsaken year of 2021 with spangles and pom-poms made you sing (and maybe even believe) that \'Lifes so fun, lifes so fun,\' during what may well have been the most uneasy stretch of your life? \'Silk Chiffon,\' MUNAs instant-classic cult smash, featuring the bands new label headPhoebe Bridgers, hit the gray skies of the pandemics year-and-a-half mark like a double rainbow. Katie Gavin, MUNAs lead singer and songwriter, wrote \'Silk Chiffon\' right after finishing the bands 2019 album, Saves the World. Since the beginning of their career, MUNA has embraced pain as a bedrock of longing, a center of radical truth, a part of growing up, and an inherent factor of marginalized experience the bands members belong to queer and minority communities, and play for these fellow-travelers above all. But in \'Silk Chiffon,\' there was just longing, and it was blissfully requited at that. \'Its kind of a smooth-brain song,\' Gavin says. \'Saves the World was therapy on a record, and I was starting to see changes in my life, more moments of joy. Its a big deal that someone like me could write that smooth!\'Now in their late twenties, the trio has become something more like family. They spent much of the early pandemic as a pod, showing up for each other and for MUNA a project that at this point feels bigger than them even when they werent sure about anything regarding the future. Theyd been dropped by RCA, and there was little in terms of income, no adrenaline to work off of, no live shows with audiences reminding them of the succor their songs provide. They asked each other: Is this career even feasible in this new reality? Can we find a way to be self-motivated, to be fulfilled intrinsically? MUNA, the bands self-titled third album, is more than a return. The bands period of uncertainty and open questioning burned everything away, leaving a feat of an album the forceful, deliberate, dimensional output of a band who has nothing to prove to anyone except themselves.\" -Jia Tolentino