Friends! @maija_sofia just released my new favourite album and it's yours too!! And here's a track by track thread about why! Listen along! https://open.spotify.com/album/7IEWiv5rWm4CmClbyhza4P?si=ZQj6x_WLTxKD6EUV4R2g9A

Hydrogen lonely
and Helium light
You float like solar dust
Into the sky

Gold Shoes is the best kind of 4am song. It's got grounded instrumentation and cosmic lyricism and it sounds like your latest existential crisis. In a good way!!

I got your hands around my chest
And your knife in my side
So dig a little deeper
Cos babe, I'm still fine

I think I was one of the first people in the world to hear this song. And it's so good to hear it produced so darkly and beautifully.

But at your feet
I was a fallen queen
Some Ozymandian
Tragedy

Lyrically, there's always beauty and grandeur here in the smallest and loneliest places. And Edie Sedgwick is probably the best of this on the album. Listen to it and listen to it and listen to it!

The stars glint like cleavers
My love it was only a fever

I'm so jealous of how well and how starkly Maija manages to fit a whole damn novel's worth of characterisation and symbolism and conflict into less than five minutes!!

Jean she grew thin - I regret she's a drinker
In our basement room the storm's just a shiver
But out on the street the lights hum and flicker

The Glitter somehow manages to conjure the romance, the doubt, the ugliness and the beauty of trying to live as a writer.

I'm only as wise as you
I'm only quietly tending an old wound

Man I love the moment the fuzzed out guitar comes in as the vocals go a little higher. It feels like the current taking hold and taking you somewhere else.

So tell me did you settle down
Did you find another girl
I don't think of you so much these days
Still I hope I'm prettier than her

In an album full of mythology and metaphor... well the stark honesty of a song like this hit all the harder.

Elizabeth, you always scared me a bit
So I went out and I found someone

And again with the whole book's worth of writing!! I'm telling you, if you buy this album, a small library comes with it, free!!

And at the age of 15 he was a married man
And at the age of 17 a father to his son
And at the age of 18 the grass grew over him

And what a strange and beautiful way to end an album! With a twisted and haunting modern fairy tale.

Seriously guys, this album is so fantastic!!!