My Life As A Moth Shares New Album ‘The Parade of the Starlet & the Broken Hearted’
My Life As A Moth is the project of a Swedish-born, East London-based artist making music that sits somewhere between post-punk, experimental rock, art pop, and industrial-tinged alternative guitar sounds. The result is a style that feels dark, immersive, and emotionally raw, often balancing harsh textures with moments of vulnerability. Her songs tend to lean into unease and intensity, but there’s also a strong sense of melody and introspection running underneath it all.
The project began during lockdown, when she was feeling isolated and creatively stuck. While sitting at an old keyboard she hadn’t used in years, she noticed a dead moth wedged between the keys—a small, haunting detail that ended up sparking something bigger. That image inspired the song “My Life As A Moth,” which then grew into the foundation for the entire project. What started as a single moment of reflection turned into a full artistic identity built around fragility, transformation, and finding unexpected beauty in something quietly unsettling.
My Life As A Moth’s upcoming 12-track album, The Parade of the Starlet & the Broken Hearted, comes from a really personal and transitional period in her life. Written during therapy and a stretch of deep reflection, the record deals with heavy experiences like trauma, manipulation, and emotional control, but it doesn’t stay stuck there. Instead, it also focuses on recovery, resilience, and the parts of yourself that stay intact even after difficult relationships or situations. Her writing style leans into imagery and symbolism, so even the most personal moments are filtered through something more surreal and story-like rather than strictly literal.
At the heart of the album is this idea of a “starlet” moving through a “parade of the broken hearted,” almost like a procession of people carrying both beauty and damage through an unforgiving world. She describes it in contrast-based imagery—finding “roses in mud,” “light in dark,” and “stars above a scrapyard”—which captures the way the record balances pain with moments of hope and clarity. Sonically, the album was built with producers Ellie Mason (Voka Gentle) and Keir Adamson over the course of a year in a back garden studio, with the changing seasons subtly shaping its mood. They even created custom sounds from everyday objects like radiators and shelves, giving the record a tactile, slightly strange texture that makes the whole thing feel intimate but otherworldly.
Make sure you check out The Parade of the Startlet & the Broken Hearted’ on Spotify below!
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