On their fifth studio album, From Nowhere (out September 6th), Mo Kenney (they/them) embraces the textures of ambiguity and the rich blur of being, failing, and becoming. As they shift through lush arrangements that touch on dreamy folk, sparse alt-country, and warm, hazed-out lo-fi pop, everything is up for interpretation and nothing is fixed. In their lyrics, Kenney opts instead to defy definition, making room for non-linear and fragmentary sentiments that challenge their own feelings about personal growth, acknowledge the slippery and shadowy nature of memory, and build love songs that conjure the bonds of friendship just as much as they hint at romance.
On the darker sounding “Signs of Life,” Kenney addresses an unbearable and obscure fissure; with recalling a loss of innocence in idyllic rural Nova Scotia, mixing sun-kissed organs with cryptic, unsettling choruses.
Stream “Signs of Life” now: https://bfan.link/signs-of-life
When writing this song, I was considering that sometimes how you are taught to love isn’t the best way. There can be unlearning to do as you move through your life and discover things about yourself. There can be parallels between early relationships and how you navigate romantic relationships. – Mo Kenney
From Nowhere‘s intimate subject matter was handled with deft hands by some of Kenney‘s nearest and dearest collaborators – Joel Plaskett, Rose Cousins, Victoria Cameron, Siobhan Martin, Jordan Murphy – and recorded, mixed, and engineered by Thomas Stajcer at Plaskett‘s Fang Studios in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.