mxmtoon has announced her third studio album, ‘liminal space’.
Set for release on 1st November via AWAL, the Oakland native and now Nashville-based artist has also shared a new single, ‘the situation’, featuring Sarah Bonito of Kero Kero Bonito.
Exploring themes of growing up and uncertainty, the album represents mxmtoon’s most introspective project to date. “In the turmoil of the last two years since my second record, I’ve felt suspended in a transitory landscape that often at times felt endless,” she explains. “It’s easy to feel trapped in something you barely understand, and life has thrown an onslaught of questions towards me that I can only respond with, ‘I have no idea how to answer this.’ So, suspended in the unknown I wrote these songs. I tried to unravel how I’ve chosen to fulfill the roles I’ve been given in my own life, and at times how I’ve failed to keep up with them.”
The album was created with an all-female team of producers, writers, and engineers. “‘liminal space’ is an album for people struggling to understand agency, who bathe in the bittersweet and lose themselves wandering in their own endless hallway with no ending,” mxmtoon adds.
Discussing ‘the situation’, mxmtoon reveals, “What is there to say… we get older, then we die, and there’s nothing you can do about it! A lot of the songs on this record deal directly with the concept of girlhood and the cycle of life. I was twenty-three when I wrote “the situation” and I feel like I grew up with this idea that my early twenties were gonna be the time of my life where I’m the hottest and most fun I’ll ever be. Society as a whole really pushes the narrative that women reach a peak and then slide down for the rest of their lives… and that’s just stupid. I always love to use some sarcasm in the mix when I’m writing songs that tend to be pretty emotionally raw though, and ‘the situation’ was the perfect opportunity to make fun of how dumb that is.”
Sarah Bonito adds, “Inspired by the theme of death and the inevitability of it in this song, I remembered a quote I once heard: ‘Life is like a roller coaster; it’s your choice to either scream or enjoy the ride.’ This led me to write lyrics based on that idea.”
mxmtoon will perform at the WNYC and Friends Centennial Celebration’s upcoming Summer Stage event in Central Park on 9th September and at Corona Capital in Mexico City later this year.
The live dates read:
SEPTEMBER
9 WNYC and Friends Centennial Celebration @ Summer Stage in Central Park, New York, NY
NOVEMBER
15 Corona Capital Festival, Mexico City, MX
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