Mörmaid

MÖRMAID'S PUSH PULL EP OUT TODAY ON ANNA PRIOR'S BEAT PALACE RECORDS 

VISUALISER FOR NEW FOCUS TRACK "PUNISH!"

NORWEGIAN ELECTRONIC POP ARTIST SET TO PLAY DEBUT LONDON HEADLINE SHOW @ PECKHAM AUDIO NEXT WEDNESDAY (23RD NOVEMBER)

Mörmaid, aka Oslo producer / songwriter Live Sollid, a former jazz student with touchstones including Grimes, fka Twigs and SOPHIE, releases her new EP today. The five-track Push Pull surfaces via Beat Palace Records, and the minimalist, pulsing "Punish!" serves as its new focus track

"The song title came from a sound effect I use that has a «punish» button on it! I started to play around with the word, and it became the minimalistic lyric you hear on the track. It definitely has an erotic feel to it, as well as being quite dark. Simply put, you could say it leans in a BDSM direction. To me it’s a song with a lot of power and fierceness, and it’s definitely my favourite one to play live.” - Mörmaid on “Punish!”

Mörmaid is the second signing to DJ and Metronomy musician Anna Prior’s new Beat Palace label and the Push Pull EP is an introduction to a new sonic world: mutated glacial pop mixed with quickly shifting rhythms, freeform improvisation scuttle across expansive ambient plains, and throbbing sub bass underpin soaring vocal melodies.

It features the previously-heard singles "The Longest Day" (a hyperpop mini-masterpiece, with manipulated and mutated vocals set against a beat-driven background) and "We Love We Dive" (a six-minute unashamedly maximal track with synthesizers and sequencers whirring forwards and rhythms intertwining).

“Mörmaid was born in 2020 when I felt that I wanted to take my music in a slightly different direction that could live on its own away from my own name,” explains Sollid. “Then my songs became more beat based and I started experimenting more with different production techniques. I moved to London in 2019 and was introduced to a lot of new music, like SOPHIE, Grimes, Arca and FKA twigs, which hugely inspired me to try out more extremes in my own music.”

Push Pull is a breathtaking first step for Mörmaid, who looks set to be a polymath artist in the rich lineage of the likes of Björk, Arca or even her compatriot Jenny Hval. In funnelling her extensive musical background into the pop form, Live Sollid is creating music that looks into the future and exists in a space all of its own.

Probing live electronics with sampling, field recordings and vocals processed to manipulate her sound is something that’s within Mörmaid's both spirit and practice. She's now set to demonstrate this in a live setting in the UK for the first time, announcing her debut London show at Peckham Audio on 23rd November.

PUSH PULL EP TRACKLISTING

We Love We Dive
The Longest Day
Punish!
You to Me
Mirror