mxmtoon has released a new album. Marginal Spacewill be released via AWAL on November 1. Alongside the announcement, the singer-songwriter said: “situation”Collaboration with Kero Kero Bonito. Album cover ( Kim Kang-hee) below.
“During the turmoil of the past two years since my second album, I’ve felt suspended in a shifting landscape that often felt endless,” mxmtoon said in a statement. “It’s easy to feel trapped by something you barely understand, and life has been throwing a barrage of questions at me that I can only answer with, ‘I don’t know how to answer that.’ So I wrote these songs suspended in the unknown, trying to figure out how I chose to play the role I was given in life, and how, at times, I just couldn’t keep up.”
“Marginal Space “This is an album for people who are struggling to understand agency, drowning in bittersweetness, and feeling lost while wandering the endless corridors of their own selves,” she added.
mxmtoon had this to say about the “situation”:
What can I say…we grow old and we die, and there’s nothing we can do about it! A lot of the songs on this record deal directly with the idea of girlhood and the cycle of life. I was 23 when I wrote “The Situation,” and I feel like I grew up with the idea that your early twenties are going to be the most glamorous and fun time of your life. Society as a whole really pushes this narrative that women peak and then fall off for the rest of their lives, and that’s just stupid. I always like to mix in some sarcasm when I write songs that tend to be pretty raw emotionally, and “The Situation” was the perfect opportunity to make fun of how stupid that is. It was also just a dream come true to work with Kero Kero Bonito on this song in particular. I’ve been listening to KKB since 2013, and Sarah’s vocals have been stuck in my head since Intro Bonito. Her contribution to the song is perfect and fun, and she really makes the song shine with an outwardly cheerful feel, even though the whole song is about death. She’s amazing.
Marginal Space Cover artwork:
Source: Our Culture – ourculturemag.com
