MOUSEY Releases Brand New Album 'My Friends'
New Zealand based singer-songwriter Sarena Close has just released her long awaited album “My Friends,” under the pen name MOUSEY. This album holds a strong focus on her friends and her relationships with them, along with “being let down but being loved”.
The tracks of My Friends are diverse and unlike each other in the best way possible yet still so closely connected. “The Bench” is the first single released from the album My Friends and was created with the intention of wanting a high energy track, executed through experimenting with key changes to add intensity. The verse chords and melody came easy to MOUSEY during the creative process as it just fell out and she got addicted to playing it, singing it in the shower, and humming it at the supermarket.
MOUSEY said, “The song has a sort of charming rage boiling inside of it. All of my bad experiences and frustrations with boys needed a constructive outlet, and this song is it.”
“Pudding and Pie” followed by the recently released track “My Hands Are Made of Glass” is described by MOUSEY as a wild journey when she was at her lowest, “Pudding and Pie” written about separating herself from a once close friend that ended up being toxic presence in her life and “My Hands Are Made of Glass” describing the feeling of loving people so much that you hurt them and want to lock yourself away in order not to hurt anyone. Describing the latter release, MOUSEY wanted the strings to sound like fingers on a chalkboard, screeching up and down. The peak of the song feels like inner chaos incarnate and features a drum machine, programmed by MOUSEY’s friend Lukas (Pickle Darling), having it sit as a layer underneath the song helps make it more cold and disconnected.
The second single to be unveiled from the album My Friends is “My Hands Are Made of Glass.” MOUSEY describes the theme of the track to be about the feeling of loving people so much that you hurt them and want to lock yourself away in order not to hurt anyone. MOUSEY wanted the strings to sound like fingers on a chalkboard, screeching up and down. The peak of the song feels like inner chaos incarnate and features a drum machine, programmed by MOUSEY’s friend Lukas (Pickle Darling), having it sit as a layer underneath the song helps make it more cold and disconnected.
“While it was really cathartic to write this semi-diss-track, it helped me organize my thoughts and bring closure to a very confusing and damaging relationship. I think this song is the longest because the torture this person put me through meant there was so much emotional fuel to burn and so much to say,” said MOUSEY.
“My intention was to write an album that was focused on something other than my family, so I decided on the name My Friends before I’d even written any of the songs in order to pull my writing into the subject. I initially hoped the album was going to be really light, cute and wholesome. But even though there are many ‘sweet’ songs on the record, my year was really hard and some of my long-time friends left me with some nasty scars - so obviously the record reflects that too. While my last album was about ‘being let down and being a let-down’, and this album is about ‘being let down but being loved’.
MOUSEY never fails to bring such melodic, beautiful tracks to the table and “My Friends” is not an exception.
