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\n\t\t\tEARTHEATER\u2019S NEW LOVES\u00a0<\/span>
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Motherhood transformed the 37-year-old experimental pop musician. On her latest album, Eartheater chronicles the pains, pleasures, and earthly delights of motherhood, pregnancy, and life.\u00a0<\/h3>\n
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When I speak to Eartheater, she\u2019s just finished putting her newborn daughter, Novishinka, to sleep. She\u2019s been busy \u2013 juggling a role as a full-time new mother alongside an album rollout \u2013 yet she remains graceful, at ease, ebullient. If anything, between the two of us, it\u2019s me who\u2019s all over the place. Early on in our conversation, I trip over my tongue when trying to say \u201cbrutal\u201d and \u201cmagical,\u201d spouting out instead an odd hybrid \u201cbrutical.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eartheater<\/a> latches onto the word, and, in her generosity, my faux pas suddenly sounds far more interesting and purposeful than it previously was. \u201cBrutical is a very cool word,\u201d she says. \u201cI think we should go with that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brutal and magical \u2013 one could say brutical \u2013 describes the experimental art-pop artist\u2019s music and her early memories. Born Alexandra Drewchin, the 37-year-old musician grew up on a farm in rural Pennsylvania. In the empty space surrounding her, she learned to let her imagination run wild, to fill in the gaps of quiet with wild visions of nature and imaginative dreams. She recounts one of her earliest memories from childhood: when her younger brother caught a big-mouth bass in the family pond, quickly gutted it before her eyes, and placed its still-beating heart in the palm of her hand. \u201cI\u2019ll just never forget that, like holding the beating heart,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was a brutal, magical, metal-ass moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Heavenly Body: If I\u2019m The Bottle You\u2019re The Message<\/em>, Eartheater\u2019s latest album, shared on 14th July, returns to this childhood site, but more importantly, it documents Eartheater\u2019s own journey into motherhood. The single \u201cParadise Rains\u201d recounts, over a lush bed of strings and pattering raindrops, the story of buying back her old family farm and conceiving her newborn daughter, Novishinka, on the very same night she and her husband went to first visit the party. It\u2019s a story of fate, the strange way that the past often intertwines with the future.<\/p>\n

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Novishinka\u2019s presence shapes the album. Album opener \u201cMalka Moma\u201d, for example, is based on a traditional Balkan song that Eartheater listened to during Novishinka\u2019s birth and early infancy; \u201cthe first song on my birth playlist and the first song on my nursing playlist,\u201d as she describes it. Much like the way a baby learns language, the song absorbed and moulded itself into her consciousness. \u201cI listened to it so much that I could sing it, even though I didn\u2019t even know what I was singing,\u201d she says. \u201cI knew the whole song before I ever even looked up what the lyrics meant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in Heavenly Body<\/em>, though, Eartheater can be visceral and vicious about the equal pains and joys of pregnancy. \u201cGlowing Guts\u201d is unflinching yet beautiful in its depiction of pregnancy, with lines like \u201cBody distorted and puffed \/ Catch myself in the mirror \/ Heart burning with acid and love.\u201d<\/em> For Eartheater, the song represents the \u201cimplosion of comfort and predictability in your body when you\u2019re pregnant.\u201d \u201cOr when you\u2019re going through labor,\u201d she adds, \u201cit\u2019s an avalanche or it\u2019s an earthquake happening inside you, and you can\u2019t do anything about it except to ride it out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet, even amidst the pain, bright spots always arrive. Eartheater describes being influenced by the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi: the beauty of imperfection, of things that are broken and proudly patched back together. For Eartheater, pregnancy and motherhood are all about experiences that stretch you out to your breaking point, push you to the limit, and break you more than you\u2019ve ever known \u2013 only to offer you the beautiful, life-affirming chance to piece yourself back together and realise for the first time just how strong you are.<\/p>\n

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In that sense, \u201cDon\u2019t Look Back\u201d is the wabi-sabi counterpart to \u201cGlowing Guts,\u201d an anthem about moving forward, healing, and having faith in the future. Alongside wabi-sabi, Eartheater found herself influenced by the theory of a non-linear conception of time during Heavenly Body<\/em>\u2019s creation. \u201cThe future has already happened,\u201d she reflects. \u201cAnd it\u2019s about having faith that what\u2019s already happened was in our greatest performance to get there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the difficulties of motherhood, Eartheater has also found it a source of inspiration and motivation like no other. It\u2019s a total jump-starter: \u201cjet mommy, jet fuel in my ass\u201d, as she says. Though she was carrying Novishinka during a large portion of Heavenly Body<\/em>\u2019s creation, Eartheater confesses that it was the quickest album she ever worked on. \u201cMy relationship with time has completely transformed\u201d since having a baby, she says. \u201cI just seize time when I can because there\u2019s just less of it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

This same logic applies to \u201cFast Asleep\u201d, Eartheater\u2019s collaboration with French electro-pop artist and fellow recent mother Oklou. She describes the track as the \u201ceasiest, most streamlined, just easy breezy collaboration\u201d she\u2019s ever worked on: she told Oklou what the song would be about, Oklou said she loved it, and soon enough Eartheater had vocals in her inbox. \u201cI think she recorded the vocals in her tour bus,\u201d she laughs. \u201cAnd she got them back to me super fast. It was like, Okay, wow, moms are so\u2026 we get shit done quick.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since releasing Heavenly Body<\/em>, Eartheater has been, of course, wrapped up in work \u2013 promoting her album, touring, and preparing for an upcoming show at London\u2019s KOKO<\/a> \u2013 but she\u2019s also been cherishing the time she spends with young Novishinka. Listening to music together is a special experience; apparently, Novishinka loves anything with \u201ca good, squelchy, interesting beat\u201d, and Eartheater has also loved watching Novishinka slowly discover the world. Moments that seem mundane on the surface are, for both Eartheater and Novishinka, filled with charm and possibility; with the deftness of a poet, Eartheater describes how it feels to watch her baby observe a ceiling light: \u201cShe\u2019ll just stare at it and then see that when she raises her hand, the light\u2019s on her hand, and then she thinks that her hand is casting a shadow, and you can see her little mind working.\u201d<\/p>\n

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I ask Eartheater about the recent spate of albums examining motherhood from a new lens, most notably Robyn\u2019s Sexistential<\/em> from earlier this year, which approaches the often-unexplored subjects of motherhood, IVF, pregnancy, and sex after forty through pop music. Eartheater gushes about the album and about thinking of her work in conversation with Robyn\u2019s. \u201cI wish every mom could write a postpartum album,\u201d she says. \u201cEvery mother\u2019s story is so specific.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for Eartheater\u2019s story? Well, it\u2019s one about farms in Pennsylvania, the beating heart and guts of a dead fish, a daydreaming girl full of imagination, pattering rain, an obscure Balkan choral piece. It is, like any great story of motherhood and family, about love.<\/p>\n

And of course, because Eartheater is Eartheater, her take on motherhood is unlike any other. When Eartheater reflects on Novishinka\u2019s early newborn phase, she describes herself as \u201cbasically an indentured servant for a tiny little puking, shitting, adorably cute dictator.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOr just a dom,\u201d she laughs. \u201cLike my baby was domming the whole world at that moment. I was her hand and foot.\u201d<\/p>\n

I laugh too. I tell Eartheater that she\u2019s right; I\u2019d love for every mom to write a postpartum album. It\u2019s true, every mom\u2019s perspective on motherhood is so different. After all, how often will you hear someone comparing a baby to a dom? But of course Eartheater could make that imaginative leap: count on her for a raw, brutical vision.<\/p>\n

Listen to the album\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

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