Toronto-born, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter STACEY returns with her lush psych-pop offering “Upside Down Merry Go Round”, her first original release in five years. “Upside Down Merry Go Round” lands somewhere between Carole King and Tame Impala, the song captures the kaleidoscopic anxieties and emotional whiplash that come with existing in a modern timeline: paying bills, joining Zoom calls, chasing dreams, and carrying on while the world seems to unravel around us. We all want off the Upside Down Merry Go Round.

“I wanted to encapsulate the disorienting juxtaposition of day-to-day existence against the backdrop of worldly chaos, not only through the lyrics but also through the songwriting and production,” explains STACEY. “The drop to half-time in the choruses mirrors the relentless highs and lows of doom-scrolling. The song also has this feel-good quality that sits in contrast with the lyrics — like a rainbow-coloured panic attack.”

Co-written by STACEY and Suzanne May (aka Fonteyn) and produced by STACEY and Dillon Casey (Weyes Blood, Orville Peck, Ethel Cain), the track also features Loren Humphrey (Cameron Winter, Geese) on drums and Tim McNalley (Dominic Fike, Baby Rose) on bass.

STACEY’s not like the other time travelers. A homebody, a yearner’s yearner at a windowpane with a Wurlitzer, a silk caftan, and a doomed dream, STACEY one-womans a retro-celestial holiday agency for lonesome escapists, crystallizing the nostalgic longing of golden age pop records into lyrical refractions for the twenty-first century.

Cruising from 60s psychedelic day-trips to glossy 70s daydreams, STACEY’s velvet textures have received glowing press from the likes of SPIN, LadyGunn, American Songwriter, Clash Magazine, WONDERLAND, Refinery29, and more, while her luxurious, lucid voice has found support from industry tastemakers including Matt Wilkinson (Apple Music), Chris Douridas (KCRW, School Night), Errol Nazareth (CBC), Lauren Laverne (BBC6 Music), and more.

Logging the aftermath of the great conjunction between Jupiter and Saturn, STACEY’s 2021 debut LP Saturn Return sits at the heart of a catalogue that has amassed over 8 million streams on Spotify, alongside singles “These Days” (2026) and “Christmas in California” (2023), and EPs First Move (2017), Reconstruction (STACEY Remixes), and STACEY (2013). From the baroque to the bohemian, STACEY’s compositions have soundtracked more than 15 television series and films, including Spinning Out (Netflix), Hollywood Stargirl (Disney+), Lucifer, Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, Orphan Black, and Degrassi.

A devout world-builder, STACEY directed and produced the Barbarella-in-a-Futuro-spaceship fantasy of Strange But I Like It, which beamed its way to the #1 spot on Zelects — Mark Ronson’s Zelig Records’ weekly top-five music video list (2021). Elsewhere in the STACEY dimension: a six-hour, out-of-this-world 60s body-paint metamorphosis for Saturn Return, and a paper collage and animated colour explosion for D.M.T.

STACEY’s kaleidoscopic, empyreal live presence has led her to share stages with Charlotte Day Wilson, Tamino, Vinyl Williams, and Cameron Avery (Tame Impala), and seen her appear at high profile showcases on Canadian national television (CTV’s Your Morning and Global Morning) and for the Royal Ontario Museum’s 75th Anniversary of Christian Dior Exhibit.

Meanwhile, in her online bunker @STACEYMUSIC, devotees to 60s and 70s inspiration gather round to enshrine pop-culture ephemera — a labour of love, deifying McCartney and Pink Floyd, disco and drop-outs, The Love Witch and The Trip, Pamela Des Barres and Antonioni, Edie and Cher, Vernor Panton furniture and fashion designers à la Pierre Cardin, Pucci, Rudi Gernreich, Paco Rabanne, and Marimekko.