Flower Face has announced a new album, Kill the Muse, which is due for release on February 5 via Nettwerk. Along with the announcement, the Montreal artist has shared a luminous, achingly vulnerable track called ‘Better the Devil’. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
“I remember so vividly the moment I wrote this song,” Ruby McKinnon explained in a statement. “I was walking home from the metro station after spending the day at my producer Marcus’s studio working on the finishing touches of my last album. I was living alone, and I had spent the better part of the last year isolating myself as much as possible (when I wasn’t partying or pursuing awful, destructive relationships). My friends had all started a sobriety kick on January 1st, which I wasn’t inclined to join. It was the dead of winter, the worst time of year, when the sun sets at 4pm, and I spent most evenings counting down the minutes until I could go to sleep. That night a friend was supposed to stay over, but she canceled, and I knew it was because she was pursuing her own awful, destructive on-and-off relationship. Everything felt so bleak. I got home with my nose running and my hands numb and sat down in the dark in my studio and wrote this song…”
“It’s hard for me to listen to this song, even now,” she continued. “I feel so sad for that small, scared, trapped person that I was. I couldn’t see a way out. We saved some parts of that original demo I recorded in the moment, because they were so raw, painful, and unflinching. It felt like the first time I was really reckoning with myself and the downward freefall I had found myself in. Really, it felt like the first time I was being fully honest in a song.”
Kill the Muse Cover Artwork:
Kill the Muse Tracklist:
1. Paralyzed
2. Too Sweet To Swallow
3. Videotape
4. Sunsick
5. Simon Says
6. Life’s So Boring
7. Party Trick
8. Better the Devil
9. Bad Dream
10. Something I Can Never Have (Nine Inch Nails Cover)
11. Mortal Creature
