Mothica has shared her new track Afterlife, the seventh single from upcoming visual album Kissing Death. The album lands on 23 August 2024.
Mothica will also head out on a UK tour later this year including a Manchester gig at Gorilla.
The album finds Mothica addressing the uncomfortable topic of death. Throughout the album she plays on the subject alongside depression, addiction and suicidal ideation. The visual album tells an immersive story across 12 tracks and their accompanying videos.
As she explains, “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”
When does Mothica headline at Manchester’s Gorilla?
Mothica headlines at Gorilla, Manchester, on 27 September 2024. The Manchester gig is one of three UK dates she will headline:
26 September – London, The Dome
27 September – Manchester, Gorilla
28 September – Glasgow, King Tuts
