Mary Middlefield shares new single ‘Atlantis‘
Mary Middlefield | Photo by Valeria Shashenok
PRAISE FOR MARY MIDDLEFIELD:
"Simple yet enormously endearing, ‘Band-Aid’ finds this young Swiss songwriter moving with incredible confidence."
- Clash
"Knitting together pastoral indie folk and winsome pop melodies with hints of knotted ‘90s indie rock"
- Under the Radar
"Quietly painful, capturing a mood of regret through gorgeous inflection and gentle writing"
- The Line of Best Fit
"awe-inspiring creations, resembling the sounds of the wilderness."
- Wonderland
Today, Swiss songwriter Mary Middlefield returns with a brand new single titled ‘Atlantis’, alongside its mesmerizing accompanying music video. Her newest release is a brash, rollicking, and raunchy number that really puts it all out there in a form of vulnerability separate from her past material.
The track follows Middlefield's recent single ‘Sexless’, which arrived last month as a vulnerable and empowering first look at her first material since the arrival of her debut album, Thank You Alexander, which was released earlier this year. The album was met with great acclaim. Shared by the likes of Clash, Notion, and The Line of Best Fit, and across a wide array of Swiss media such as Schweizer Illustrierte, Sunrise Starzone, and SRF3. Middlefield was named ‘SRF3 Best Talent’ in the month of April, which allowed her to blossom further. In her first summer as an artist in the industry she embarked on her first festival tour, playing renowned festivals such as Montreux Jazz Festival and Winterthurer Musikfestwochen.
On ‘Atlantis’, Mary Middlefield continues to expand on the template combining ethereal and forlorn vocals with dark folk instrumentation and uplifting synth and strings. The single is accompanied by a stark video of Middlefield and her band playing in a liminal almost submerged space.
Speaking about the single's themes, Middlefield says: "The song is about sadistic love, which has been one of my favorite subjects to write about lately. It’s not normal to be so infatuated with a person that gives you so little in return. However, I find those emotions very interesting in humans. When in love (especially unhealthy love) we are sometimes willing to give everything away, to sacrifice our own happiness for someone else’s and sometimes even go down darker routes. I wanted the song to be sweet, romantic yet almost morbid. Nobody should have to go through these extremes or even think about them to feel loved and validated."
Listen / watch & share ‘Atlantis’ here
A former student of classical violin, 22 year-old Mary Middlefield now wields high drama, desire, and vulnerability as keys to making meaning in a complicated universe, where love and abuse coincide. Her roomy, stream-of-consciousness songs veer between a keening pop-punk fueled intensity and a lovely folk-inspired softness, inspired by the likes of Elliott Smith, Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley, as well as more recent artists like Claud, Jockstrap and The Japanese House.
Her story as a singer-songwriter began three years ago with a broken heart and a bruised ego. “He dumped me in the middle of the day while I was carrying his groceries,” she says. With nothing to lose, she figured it was the perfect time to experiment. She picked up the guitar, and taught herself chords and riffs from Radiohead’s songbook. “I hope I’ll get their discography down to a T one day,” she says. From there, piece by piece and note by note, she began stitching herself back together, turning her pain into something generative, fortifying. Through song, she began to reclaim everything she’d lost in that relationship and its subsequent dissolution.
Mary Middlefield's latest music is a purging of emotion, one that’s allowing her to move forward with a clear mind and a clean palette. But for now, this is music for the people who are stuck, scorned and lonely. Middlefield invites you to suffer and yearn and scream alongside her.
Stay tuned for more new music from Mary Middlefield, coming soon.
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PREVIOUS RELEASES:
LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Mary Middlefield - ‘Sexless’
Stream / YouTube
LISTEN/PURCHASE & SHARE: Mary Middlefield - Thank You Alexander LP
Spotify / Apple Music / Bandcamp
WATCH & SHARE: Mary Middlefield - TYA Singles
‘Band Aid‘ / ‘Two Thousand One‘ / ‘This One's For You‘ / ‘Case Closed‘
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