- 2024-07-13
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MUSIC
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MOTHICA Releases New Song “Mirage”
Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter MOTHICA will release her upcoming third studio album “Kissing Death” on August 23, 2024.
To date, she has released 5 singles from the album. Last month, she promised to release more two singles by the release of the album.
She released a new song “Mirage” along with a music video directed by Samuel Halleen on July 10, 2024.
The track was written by Becca Krueger, David Burris, and McKenzie Ellis. Produced by David Burris.
MOTHICA said of the song, “At one point, this record was taking a classic western inspired direction but I cut most of those songs. I love slide guitar, old church bells, and that spaghetti western influence you’d hear in a Tarantino movie. But being from Oklahoma, I always stayed away from country adjacent sounds because it’s all I ever heard on the radio.”
She continued, “I heard about this idea in therapy I wanted to write about. People imagine achieving their goals will bring them happiness, like this still image in their mind of ‘once I get this, i’ll be happy forever’. But emotions aren’t permanent, it could just be a mirage of water in the desert. So this is my spin on western imagery as a Mothica song. The fans heard a snippet and nicknamed it my yeehaw-thica song.”- The new album is her first project in two years since the 2022 album “Nocturnal” and is a visual album that tells an immersive story across 12 tracks accompanied by music videos.
MOTHICA said of the 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.” - source : Apple Music
