Pre-orders are now live for my very first album, Paper Thin.
These songs are stills from my life the past five years. Emerging from the pandemic while living and working between Hollywood, Silverlake, Brooklyn, Atlanta, and the Hudson Valley. There’s a sense of transience about these songs for me, because throughout the creation I was pretty much living out of a suitcase, traveling from east to west coast, or in temporary housing situations.
This album marks a chapter of insecurities - housing, financial, emotional, where the medium of music was a through line, a creative outlet for processing my own narrative. I didn’t realize this collection was an album, or even that I’d finished this many songs until I sat down to plan for an album I haven’t written yet.
It’s hard to see what you have sometimes when you are in accelerated motion. Once I slowed down, had stable-enough housing for the first time in years, and tended to my malnourished body, I realized with amazement that I already had what I was striving for - a finished album.
The title track is Paper Thin - a song I wrote about my “paper thin heart” while indulging a feeling of helplessness. I remember writing it in a voice memo pretty much in one go and then figuring out the melody on a guitar I got for free at a garage sale in LA.
At that point in time I felt like if I was an open book, kept an open heart, was honest, and was a ‘cool girl’ with no expectations, I was owed reciprocity. The situationships I kept getting into were giving me some hard lessons to the contrary. Paper Thin is a reference to the innocence, confusion, indignance, of trusting others with my heart and expecting them to know what to do with it, when in fact everyone involved was clueless about what to do with my paper thin heart.
The cover started as a selfie I took in my studio in Kingston. My friend Pea the Feary created the album image with the photo and the album tracks as inspiration. My request was to create a paper doll feeling world. I thrifted some cute animal toys and sent her photos of these friends to include in the portrait. And then I asked my friend ashley molesso to design the layout of the album and risograph print it.
Most of the songs were recorded, mixed, and mastered in my friend Sam O.B.’s studio in upstate NY. It feels like a magic treehouse. It is situated in the side of a hill and has a big window that overlooks mountains.
As soon as I hit publish on this newsletter I’m heading over there to rehearse for the album release show on September 18th <3
Today is Bandcamp Friday, one of the few days a month where Bandcamp waives their share, so if you pre-order today, what you spend goes right to me to help me with my final payment for vinyl production!
Only 200 copies exist, individually numbered and signed. Pre-orders include immediate access to the full digital album. $22 You’ll get the full digital album immediately, and your signed vinyl copy will ship once the pressing is done. ($22 through pre-order, $26 once Paper Thin is officially out)
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Lots of love
x Mothh
So excited for you! 🤗💞
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