LA based alt-pop singer-songwriter Mothica has released a new single ‘Doomed’, as well as announced a new album Kissing Death, which will be released in August.
‘Doomed’ is a personal track which explores the abuse she was subjected to as a young woman in her hometown.
Mothica comments on the new track, “I think ‘Doomed’ is a sibling of my song ‘Forever Fifteen’. It’s a melancholy ballad and has this shoegaze influence at the end of the song that swells up with intensity. I’ve heard people talk about gifted child syndrome, or about feeling like a disappointment compared to the accolades they were given as a young kid and I didn’t know other people felt the same way.”
“I was a smart kid with a bright future, and sometimes I feel like my depression sabotaged some of that light I had. In the second verse, I open up about my experience in my church youth group and my abusive youth pastor. When I was just coming out of middle school, I was awkward and insecure and I hoped church would be a safe place to make friends but I was taking advantage of at my most vulnerable. I wish I could go back and protect myself from some of the things I went through, and it was incredibly therapeutic to recreate my teenage bedroom for the music video. I casted my friend to play a younger version of me, adorned in 2009 emo warped tour era posters, and show this angsty misunderstood girl. I am terrified to put this song out but I showed the ending to my therapist and she teared up so I felt like this was an important song to lead the album with. It feels like a small sliver of my origin story.”
Mothica’s new album Kissing Death is a visual album that tells an immersive story across 12 tracks and their accompanying music videos which weave into each other.