Born from a place of personal battles, MOTHICA embraces her demons in her new project.

MOTHICA has always written songs that resonate with her. Sometimes pop-leaning, sometimes alternative, often with rockier undertones. Her new single “Red” focuses on coping with tougher emotional times and inner demons, rooted in an denial of a problem until it hits hard. We can all relate but here MOTHICA hopes to tackle these feels head on:

“After releasing Nocturnal, which had more of a heavier influence, I knew I wanted to include a rock song. In the narrative of the album, I wanted younger me to go to a rock show of future me, which is obviously impossible in reality, but it represents all the music I grew up listening to and what I’d later be inspired by. My buddy Nick Sadler and I wrote this together to be this rock-inspired anthem that teenage me would’ve loved, despite the lyrics being so self-destructive.”

MOTHICA’s album arrives 23rd August on her own label Heavy Heart (via Rise Records) and tackles the tough topic of death from a multitude of angles.

“I decided to make Death a love interest in a dark rom-com-style tale,” she notes. “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.”

Get inspired to deal with your dark side; MOTHICA shares official music video for “Red”: