Oakland-based artist Kathryn Mohr has announced her debut album, Waiting Room, arriving January 24 on The Flenser. The LP was written and self-recorded over a month in eastern Iceland. Listen to the first single ‘Driven’ below.
Mohr made the new album “within the walls of a disused fish factory surrounded by remote nature,” according to a press release. “Mohr spent hours immersed in the writing and recording of this album in a windowless concrete room lit with a string of multicolored light bulbs (which made their way into the album art), taking breaks to wander the factory or disappear up the shoreline—field recorder in hand. What came out of those recording hours are songs inspired by horror as extravagant as limb amputation by a faulty elevator and lyrics as maze-like and misguided as the torturous love and fears they depict.”
Mohr reflected: “Music takes me out of my body, immerses me in another world the way a film does. I begin and end in very different emotional states, doors open where there were no doors before– that is what I experienced making this record. If this inner movement is contagious, spreads to those who listen, then this was a record worth creating.”
Waiting Room Cover Artwork:
Waiting Room Tracklist:
1. Diver
2. Rated
3. Driven
4. Petrified
5. Take It
6. Elevator
7. Prove It
8. Horizonless
9. Cornered
10. Wheel
11. Waiting Room
