MOTHICA RELEASES NEW SINGLE “THE REAPER”
MOTHICA has released a new single entitled “The Reaper”, the song is taken from her upcoming conceptual visual album “KISSING DEATH”, which is set for release through her own imprint Heavy Heart Records partnering with Rise Records on the 23rd August 2024. The song is a moody synthwave influenced track with heavy basslines, glistening synths and ethereal melodies laced throughout.
Speaking on the song Mothica says: “I was listening to a lot of movie soundtracks when I was writing this album, like the synthwave in the movie ‘Drive’. I wanted to write an upbeat love song you could dance to. I rarely write about relationships or love, but this one was a fun twist with the subject being my infatuation with the grim reaper. Lyrically, I try to rationalise that he’s a good guy and it became this more lighthearted song of the record that is unlike anything I’ve ever released. I invited dozens of my friends to be in the music video, where I sung the song in 2x speed so you saw this slow motion of a neon-lit club around me, and there’s some humour in there like the grim reaper teaching me how to play pool or my friend dancing on his scythe like its a pole.”
Watch the video for ‘The Reaper’ here:
The upcoming album KISSING DEATH is a visual album that tells a story across 12 tracks and accompanying music videos.
“I decided to make Death a love interest in a dark rom-com-style tale… Throughout the visuals, I’m seen in a therapist’s office explaining this complicated relationship as if describing a scorned lover. The music videos will be like ‘flashbacks’ of what I’m telling my therapist. On the first single “DOOMED,” we go back in time to an angsty teenage version of me. This is my first brush with the Grim Reaper and I doodle pictures of him in my diary surrounded by hearts. Flash forward, I’m shown performing at a dive bar, clubbing, engulfed in self-destruction. He stalks me, and eventually even proposes marriage, and I leave him at the altar and run away. It ends with me and Death in couples therapy. I wanted the music to feel cinematic, like the soundtrack of a movie.”
Watch the album trailer here:
MOTHICA has announced a UK and European tour for September 2024.
16th September – Kavka, Antwerp, Belgium
18th September – Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands
19th September – Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg, Germany
20th September – Hole44, Berlin, Germany
21st September – Luxor, Cologne, Germany
24th September – Backstage, Paris, France
26th September – The Dome, London, UK
27th September – Gorilla, Manchester, UK
28th September – King Tuts, Glasgow, UK
Tickets on sale now- HERE
