MOTHICA is back with a new EP, being released on a new label.
‘Somewhere In Between’ will be dropping on February 20 via her new home of SharpTone Records.
She had this to say about the root of the release and where she currently is in her journey:
Like a moth to a flame, I’ve been attracted to drugs, alcohol, and self-destruction. “As Mothica grows, I’ve asked, ‘How can I make the darkness I’m attracted to be positive and utilize it as a vessel for sharing my story?’ It’s hard not to get lost in the dark sides of life and the music industry; it’s easy to compare yourself to others and feel ‘not good enough,’ but I’ve decided to take everything I’ve been through and to use it in order to inspire.
“Due to my depression and being a recovering addict, I’m so ‘all or nothing.’ Everything seems fatalistic to me. How do I exist in the middle? While making the EP, I had just gotten out of rehab, and I was able to be vulnerable. A lot of the words were initially written as poetry on my phone, and the lyrics are the most vulnerable and poetic I’ve ever written. I’m dealing with my struggle to get sober again, my first major breakup, and other significant life events. For so long, I had been numbing out my emotions. I was finally able to process them, and it was freeing.”
The first taste of that vulnerability comes through in ‘Save Your Roses’, a hot and heavy offering on the surface, modern metal at its most dense and destructive, but it hides a much more devastating message below the surface.
She had this to add about the track and what it represents for her, stating, “I wanted to write a song that on the surface sounds like it’s about a lover I’m pining after, but is actually about substances. The verses are about how intoxicating it is to lose yourself in drugs, and mirrors my experience with sobriety. The lyric in the chorus ‘Don’t save your roses for my grave’ is inspired by a conversation I had with a fan after one of my shows in Paris. They said, ‘I believe we should give people their flowers while they’re here.’ That stuck with me–that we often tell people how much they mean to us only after they’re gone. It was fun to make this explosive, energetic production with Elliot Polokoff but layer that with lyrics that have a darkness to them.”
The EP’s artwork looks like this:
Whilst the tracklisting is like this:
01. Evergreen Misery
02. WEAPON
03. Save Your Roses
04. BULLET
05. Somewhere In Between
You can also check out the opening track ‘Evergreen Misery’, of which the video for ‘Save Your Roses’ serves as a visual companion to.
