Almost all of the songs are informed by what was going on around me contextually but set in this surreal other place I had retreated to. Being terminally stuck in my 700 sq ft apartment for two years in downtown DC amidst all of that was pretty rough as I was writing and recording this album, so I retreated heavily into fantasy. I’m still reckoning with the fact that we will never get the pre-COVID world back and how this new world was born from that one. Rising global fascism, rising tides: we’re in the end stage now. I feel like we all feel it, seeing it on our screens, before our eyes and in the way it’s affecting our personal behaviors. More than once was a guitar take on this record interrupted by the sound of an armored police vehicle rolling past my window in mid 2020, and more than once did I give up recording a vocal take after yet another news buzz on my phone left me exhausted. This DC-based artist would be perfect for fans of Julien Baker and Low. Mothlights come from the mind of Rishi Gupta, who also owns the label Strawberry Moon Records. Today is a great day to share the latest album from Mothlights called Walking the World With A Leaky Umbrella.
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