“This album isn’t a god complex, it’s an invitation to think about what you worship. It’s about women reclaiming their holiness & inviting you to acknowledge your own. Their debut album baptizes you into the cult of MOTHERMARY. It is a mirror to religion. Reflecting the bad & salvaging the good in what has been called an engrossing sacrilegious spectacle.” – MOTHERMARY
MOTHERMARY makes retro-futuristic Art Pop. Named after the mother of Christ, the ultimate symbol of religious hypocrisy & the insane expectations placed on woman, the bicoastal project is the brainchild of identical twins Elyse & Larena, who grew up in a Mormon family in Missoula, Montana, the youngest of nearly a dozen children. “It was our world… our paradigm,” Larena says about those days. “We were brainwashed.”
At the age of 20, Elyse left & began writing music, eventually ending up in Brooklyn. After leaving the repression of religion & experiencing similar barriers in the music industry, Elyse taught herself music production. “I wanted to have control over the sound. TOTAL control.”
Larena followed suit & rejoined with her sister in New York City. Creating music together became a form of therapy. A way to share their story. “It makes sense,” Elyse told Larena. “You’re my twin. We went through this experience together. We tell it together”. MOTHERMARY was born.
The sound Elyse & Larena have created is a contrast of light & dark — ethereal vocals against gritty instrumentation. It is as elusive as it is engrossing. A unique juxtaposition from two sisters who have always refused to be defined.
The group split studio time equally between NYC & LA over the last two years. I Am Your God is out now via Italians Do It Better on shimmering celluloid. It’s Art Pop & Sin Wave that’s utterly singular, a musical Retrofuturism dazzling with everything we adore. Gaze into their hall of mirrors as they leave you seeing double.
In a world full of clones…Join us in communion with the sisters of mercy tonight.
Produced by Chris McLaughlin & Elyse Winn
Written By Larena & Elyse Winn Mixed by Chris McLaughlin Mastered By Mike Bozzi At Bernie Grundman Mastering
Catch Fire (3:12)
Wearing Me Thin (3:33)
Give It Up (3:01)
Resurrection (2:49)
Like A Prayer (3:44)
Burn With Desire (3:39)
Know The Truth (0:15)
Pray (3:28)
Devils (0:32)
Coming For You (2:42)
Angels (0:25)
I Am Your God (4:02)
