My Life As A Moth shares new album The Parade of the Starlet & the Broken Hearted
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My Life As A Moth is the project of a Swedish-born, East London-based artist whose music blends post punk, experimental rock, art pop, industrial textures and alternative guitar music into something immersive, eerie and emotionally charged.
The project began during lockdown, at a time when she felt lost and disconnected. Sitting down at a dusty keyboard she had not played in a long time, she found a dead moth between the keys.
Struck by how sad and strangely beautiful it looked, she wrote a song called “My Life As A Moth.” That moment became the starting point not just for a track, but for an entire artistic identity.
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That instinct to transform difficult feelings into something vivid sits at the heart of her new 12-track album, The Parade of the Starlet & the Broken Hearted. Written during a period of deep personal change and therapy, the record draws on experiences of trauma, manipulation, coercive control and gaslighting, but it is just as much about resilience, clarity and the parts of ourselves that survive.
Her writing often takes personal experience and filters it through surrealism, symbolism and world-building, creating songs that feel both deeply intimate and slightly otherworldly.
At the centre of the album is the idea of the “starlet” and her “parade of the broken-hearted” as figures who carry beauty, integrity and empathy through a harsh and distorted world. The record is rooted in contrast, as the songwriter puts it, the album is inspired by “the rose in the mud, the light in the dark, the growth that comes from hardships, the stars you see above a scrapyard.”
There is pain running through these songs, but also strength, mystery and a sense of something bigger than what is happening on the surface.
Produced and engineered by Ellie Mason (Voka Gentle) and Keir Adamson, the album was recorded over just under a year in Keir’s back garden studio, through both heatwave and cold spell. That shifting, seasonal setting became part of the record’s atmosphere.
Together they built a distinctive sonic world for the album, even creating a custom sample pack from everyday objects including radiators, shelves, lentil bags and percussion, shaping those sounds into textures that feel strange, tactile and alive. “Making music for me can feel like untangling a ball of yarn in my head and knitting something out of it,” she says.
My Life As A Moth has played a sold-out show at Paper Dress Vintage, performed venues including Oslo, The Boileroom and SJQ, received support from BBC Radio 6, BBC Radio Wales and Absolute Radio, and landed on Spotify’s editorial playlist Melomania.
With The Parade of the Starlet & the Broken Hearted, she expands that world even further, cementing herself as an artist with a powerful gift for turning inner chaos into something beautifully unflinching.
