- 2024-09-17
-
MUSIC
-
Suki Waterhouse Releases New Album “Memoir of a Sparklemuffin”
British singer-songwriter Suki Waterhouse released her sophomore album “Memoir of a Sparklemuffin” on September 13, 2024 via Sub Pop Records.
This marks her first album in two years since the 2022 debut album “I Can't Let Go”.
The album comprises a 18-track, produced by apob, Blue May, Boy Blue, Brad Cook, Collin Pastore, Eli Hirsch, Findlay, Fred Ball, Hazey Eyes, Jake Finch, John Mark Nelson, Jonathan Rado, Jules Apollinaire, Martin Wave, Noah Conrad, Peter Labberton and Raj Jain.
The album title is inspired by the peculiarly-named spider species.
Suki Waterhouse said of the album title, “I came across the Sparklemuffin - which is wildly colored, does this razzle-dazzle dance, and its mate will cannibalize it if she doesn't approve of the dance. It's a metaphor for the dance of life we're all in. The title felt hilarious, ridiculous, and wonderful to me.”- She said of the album, “Feels surreal to finally be able to bring this world to you that I've been living in for the past year. Sometimes it feels insane taking the most inner parts of myself and putting them pen to paper and releasing them to the world. but with every song on this project and the beautiful people I got to make it with I felt more and more sure of how proud I was of this album. I'm so deeply grateful to all of the collaborators on this record and to everyone behind the scenes that has been with me in the making.”
-
Suki Waterhouse explained about some tracks for the album.
“Gateway Drug”
“I wanted to do something that lulls you into a sense this is going to be a slow, romantic song and have something that really explodes and has a wild abandon to it,”
“Supersad”
“I wanted to do a song with kind of like very upbeat was kind of like more sort of like an upbeat song about sort of like, lying in your bed and like bed raw and kind of like, I don't know, crazy times and like hotel rooms when I say. It's basically like an ode to like my extreme messiness. But I also kind of like the sound wise, I was like, I wanted to like make a song that sounded like what you would put on at the mall, and the movie 'Clueless' or like the opening title to 'Legally Blonde' that kind of like 90s movie was like where my head was at the time.
This record is a reminder to myself to bring yourself up and have that resilience. I always think of it as putting on a sparkling pink boa and still go out and not get hardened.”
“Faded”
“We went with a vibrant, fun, and choppy card cut stop motion animated style for these two videos, inspired by Monty Python and other great cut-out animators. I really enjoyed making them and working with Suki. The songs had a nice differentiation in vibe, so I went with super saturated and bright for 'My Fun;' and then a little more washed out for 'Faded.'”
“My Fun”
“It's such an anxious state when I'm trying to put together a song, because you always feel like you are on the edge of something. It's really about going against the intellect and into the instinct of the song. That's what I find so fascinating about writing. It's really the most tedious, delicate process, so dependent on whether you can get out of your own way that day.”
“Model, Actress, Whatever”
“It's funny, when I wrote that song, I kind of had that loop going around - (singing) 'call me a model, an actress, whatever' - and it was something that I thought was kind of self-deprecating and funny. But I also felt like I would want to be in my car singing that. It's dramatic, it's glamorous.
I love consuming stories about people's lives written by them, I love reading a memoir, I love reading from someone's perspective what really went down, what really happened. That song, I guess, I was a little afraid after I wrote it - like, I've been trying to get away from being called this, from having these kind of labels - and then I think that was why I ended up writing it. There were a couple of months where I was like, 'I'm not going to have this as a single. Let's sweep that one under the carpet.' And then it's always those ones actually, that eventually, you're like, 'No, yeah, this is reclaiming those words.'
Especially with the video, I wanted to have just like a ton of fun and play into the stereotypes. I actually feel very empowered by the song. The video is like, really funny and I hope everyone watches it because it's just like a giggle. I really feel proud of that.”
“OMG”
“We started half the song and then put it to the side. We were like, 'It's not working.' And then two months went by and we were back in the studio, and suddenly this chorus came out with this energy around it.
It's such an anxious state when I'm trying to put together a song, because you always feel like you are on the edge of something. It's really about going against the intellect and into the instinct of the song. That's what I find so fascinating about writing. It's really the most tedious, delicate process, so dependent on whether you can get out of your own way that day.”
“Everybody Breaks Up Anyway”
“It is left open-ended.”
“To Love”
“'To Love' is a song that I wrote really recently that I was going to wait to put out on my second album. But I felt like it is a very distinct portrait of my heart right now that I wanted to share. I started performing it on tour and got so excited that I wanted to share it with everyone.” - source : Apple Music
