MOTHICA has released the new track “Mirage”, taken from the visual album, KISSING DEATH, released through her own imprint Heavy Heart Records partnering with Rise Records is to be released 23rd August 2024. “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. 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.” WATCH “MIRAGE” NOW 
Death is an uncomfortable topic that most people avoid thinking about, but MOTHICA decides to dance with it on the forthcoming album. Vulnerably, she laments her 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. After amassing hundreds of millions of streams and earning acclaim from the likes of Billboard, MTV, Teen Vogue, Buzzfeed, Alt Press, and more, she dives deeper into her powerful story with her third album, KISSING DEATH. KISSING DEATH is a visual album that tells an immersive story across 12 tracks and their accompanying music videos which weave into each other. “I decided to make Death a love interest in a dark rom-com-style tale,” she notes. “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.” Watch the stunning album trailer here 
In the end, MOTHICA might just give you the strength to deal with your demons too. MOTHICA has announced a UK and European tour for September 2024. 16th September – Kavka, Antwerp, Belgium (Low Tickets)
18th September – Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Low Tickets)
19th September – Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg, Germany (Low Tickets)
20th September – Hole44, Berlin, Germany (Low Tickets)
21st September – Luxor, Cologne, Germany (Low Tickets)
24th September – Backstage, Paris, France (Low Tickets)
26th September – The Dome, London, UK (Low Tickets)
27th September – Gorilla, Manchester, UK (Low Tickets)
28th September – King Tuts, Glasgow, UK (SOLD OUT) Tickets on sale now- HERE WATCH “DOOMED” NOW 
WATCH “CURIOSITY KILLED THE MOTH” NOW 
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“KISSING DEATH” IS OUT 23RD AUGUST 2024 VIA HEAVY HEART/RISE RECORDS
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