“If you’re going to deconstruct the modern psyche, you might as well dance to it.”
“Atoms At Me” by Liela Moss
Less than two years removed from the unveiling of her excellent debut solo album My Name Is Safe In Your Mouth (2018), Liela Moss has revealed that her follow-up effort Who The Power. “Atoms At Me” is the first single from the album and I’ve stuck it on repeat all morning.
“So much of being a musician and live performer is about projecting energy outward, which can be a beautiful and powerful thing,” The Duke Spirit vocalist explains in an official statement. “I experienced a good round of that over previous years, and now wanted to explore my fears of tipping the scales the other way: why should I continue to re-enact the narcissistic habits of our generation, desperate for validation, desperate for space, for ‘a platform’?”
Liela Moss Bio
If My Name Is Safe in Your Mouth offered a haunting snapshot of Moss’ restlessly intuitive instincts, Who the Power repurposes and refuels those instincts, standing as fertile testament to the potential in Moss’ self-possessed yet receptive way of working. As she puts it, “My offering is only mine. It lacks ubiquity. Crucially, it doesn't seek to rob from others. In actual fact it only has to feed three mouths, under the shelter they need, and provide enough time to nourish their minds so that they can in turn be in the productive service of others. It doesn't need to win to succeed. Just to be understood for what it is, is enough.” Now that’s a beautiful and powerful thing, indeed.
