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MOTHERMARY- I Am Your God



MOTHERMARY
I Am Your God
Italians Do It Better


MOTHERMARY's debut album, I Am Your God is the soundtrack to Aries season and as a Sagittarius, I am all into this FIRE! It has been on repeat for the past couple of weeks...they first turned up on my radar through AFI lead singer, Davey Havok, he had them on Volume West with Lindsay Parker a while back. They played a couple shows at SXSW and finally, this past Saturday opened up for AFI at the Palladium.  I was living vicariously through the internet and the magic of social media.

 MOTHERMARY are twins who grew up in LDS, left the church moved to NYC, separately, but once they came together they created the entity that is MOTHERMARY.  They spend their time between NYC and LA and are set to play on April 9th at Spring Sound, an exclusive social club in TriBeCa that I hope I don't have to crash because that is what I might be ready to do...to see their LIVE show in person.

They create a bold sexy darkwave electropop expression of sacrilegious subversion and embodiment of the sacred feminine as Dominant, powerful, and sexual tempered with mercy. Their voices are airy low and ethereal-like sirens undulating to their seductive synthwave tracks. It is very good music to dance, strip, fuck, or conduct a BDSM session to, and it is a good album from start to finish.

 "Catch Fire" whose theme is the tautological dichotomy of Eve and the original sin but the deeper you go, you are invited to contemplate the duality of sexuality as a reproductive act,  to create life, and the denial of sexuality, and the purity asked of women in religious organizations (in my case, Catholicism, in their case Mormonism). They cover Madonna's "Like A Prayer" in a beautifully original way that still honors the beats and spirit of the original with their own vocal vibe. 

My favorite tracks "Burn With Desire", and "Pray" are arranged back to back and crescendo as the representation of the album's themes and beats but please go check it out for yourself. It's Bandcamp Friday!
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