MOTHICA’s captivating, new track ‘Red’ has been dropped alongside a music video. This is ahead of her album ‘KISSING DEATH’ due for release August 23rd via Heavy Heart/Rise Records. She’s also heading on her UK headline tour autumn 2024.
On ‘Red’ MOTHICA comments, “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 this2 together to be this rock-inspired anthem that teenage me would’ve loved, despite the lyrics being so self-destructive.”
MOTHICA’s forthcoming album is brave where she discusses themes people tend to avoid including personal battles with depression, addiction, and suicidal ideation, processing her pain with lush soundscapes underpinned by funereal keys, heart-thumping hard rock guitars, and disarmingly catchy moments of pop catharsis.
She depicts the upcoming album, “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.”
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
Tour Tickets: https://www.mothica.com/tour
Pre-order KISSING DEATH: https://mothica.lnk.to/kissingdeath
