Catalog Number: FOF246LP Color: Black Format: LP UPC: 4062548091496 Motherland is an electrified open letter to our dying planet. A gleaming beacon of urgent light saying, "Breathe. Keep going. Heal. Please." "I wrote the lyrics from the perspective of Mother Earth," says Lia, of her debut album, "but it's as much an album about the climate crisis as it is about motherhood and the maternalization I've experienced in my life." Having released a past solo EP in 2019, Motherland remains Lia's first full-length offering. A longform listen of both heartbreak and help and healing. Seeing debilitation in its many forms and making art amidst the continued struggle. Her heavy lyrical content swirls through synth flutters and hard-hitting drums, making for a captivating contrast. Dystopian and dreamy. Ambient layers and atmospheric backdrops with piano ballads, downtempo electronica, and drum and bass. The influences of James Blake and Frou Frou ooze through these tracks. Think Lapsley, FKA Twigs, Kllo, Caroline Polachek. With a bachelor's degree in environmental science, with parents as nature lovers, and with a couple of Earth Day posters in her childhood bedroom, the environment has been a life-long focus for Lia. How fitting that listening to this album feels like watching a garden grow. A field becoming a forest. Removing a sword wrapped in vines in order to help heal the planet. Somber, reflective, strong, empowering. The disappointment in the decline of climate is contrasted with an urgency and a determination and a message of sincerity."