Setting the tone with warped textures and immersive guitar, Mother Culture open their new single, Princess Die, with atmospheric vocals and intrigue.
The opus expands into vibrant alternative rock soundscape as the Melbourne-based duo take us on a lo-fi, grunge hybrid journey with Princess Die.
Speaking on the release, brothers Darcy and Spencer Ward confess, “Princess Die is written about a question, what if all these women in famous songs didn’t want to be in these songs in the first place? What if the things sung about them never came true?”
The duo continue with depth, “It kind of takes away a person’s autonomy when you write them into a song like that and it left me wondering how they might really feel about it.”
The subject matter is very current with the recent news that Monica Lewinsky asked to be removed from one of Beyoncé’s songs. Mother Culture elaborate by saying, “In the chorus ‘Princess Die’ is sung as a play on words to Princess Diana who famously died in a car crash in 1997 and since has had a legacy created around her that’s stranger than any fiction. She didn’t want to be famous or in that situation at all, she just wanted to be happy. It’s a heartbreaking story what happened to her, and a real life example of what we were writing about.”
We learn that Mother Culture draw from a wide range of musical influences to create their own unique blend of indie rock, psychedelia and pop. Princess Die is a follow up to their debut EP To Be Frank which was released in November 2020, and several follow up singles throughout 2021 and 2022!
We appreciate the depth, authenticity, message and poetic nuance of the composition, and have added Princess Die to our New Music Spotlight playlist, whilst we continue to stream Mother Culture‘s wider discography including Something’s In The Water It Seems.
We are Mother Culture, an alternative/indie duo of brothers Darcy and Spencer Ward based out of Melbourne Aus. We produce all of our own sounds in our home studio and have been steadily releasing music together for the past 2 years. This latest track ‘Princess Die’ is written about a question, what if all these women in famous songs didn’t want to be in these songs in the first place? What if the things sung about them never came true? It kind of takes away a person’s autonomy when you write them into a song like that and it left me wondering how they might really feel about it.