Marika Che

Marika Che is the project of Marika Justad, previously the frontwoman of the indie-rock band TANGERINE. The band garnered praise from NME, The Guardian, Flood, KEXP, Vice, Bust, Bitch, Stereogum, Rookie Mag, Billbaord, the Seattle Times, Buzzbands LA, and many more. The band’s music was heard on TV shows on FOX and MTV, and the band toured as main support for Jack Antonoff’s Bleachers “Gone Now” tour. They have been featured on multiple Apple editorial playlists, and their song “Feel This Way” has millions of streams and counting on Spotify. Now after a brief period of soul-searching, Justad is back as Marika Che (Che is her middle name, taken from her grandmother’s best friend in Korea) with a debut LP out April 8th 2026 titled “Bright Flame”. Across 12 tender and searching tracks, Che invites us into a world both vast and granular- from dirty dishes to wide open skies. The album opens with “Bonfire of Tragedy”, a haunting, stripped-down song about grief which finds Che telling a friend: “you’ve had a hard time, I think you should try: the Bonfire of Tragedy.” Listen closely and you can hear Che reading passages from her late fathers prose poetry, blanketed in eerie layers of humming. “Edge Of the Storm” finds Che sitting uneasily with a new-found peace of mind, wondering when the storms of the past will return: “I know it’s all good these days. But rolling thunder’s never far away.”