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Midwife
Midwife
[ she/her ]
city: Denvercountry: USA
genre: Experimental
styles: Experimental Guitar, Shoegaze, Experimental Pop, Ambient
Sickworld
Single
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Midwife is the project of Madeline Johnston, a self taught multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer, currently based in Southern New Mexico by way of Denver, Colorado, where she spent the last decade+ developing her sound and community. Midwife began while Madeline was a resident of the beloved/infamous DIY space Rhinoceropolis in 2014. She has released three albums with The Flenser, most recently, Luminol (2021), which received national and international acclaim. On stage, Johnston is known for her sparse, emotionally charged experimental pop music that can silence a crowd of hundreds. On record, she produces intricate and lush sonic environments in her own little corner of the heavy music scene. She describes her sound as "Heaven Metal," AKA emotional music about devastation: catharsis. Johnston writes primarily about grief, and the many faces it can inhabit.
Johnston says of the track, “I started collecting globes. Sickworld was written in late 2021, during a long, cold winter. The world is sick. I'm coming down with it. I wanted to relate the unrest and ailments experienced externally with the general malaise I had been feeling emotionally for a long time. The lyrics are a culmination of festering thoughts I was carrying around, and digestible pieces of larger ideas like faith, sobriety, and death. It is also largely about being homesick for another time. Timesick. But this is being homesick for a place you can never return to, because it doesn't exist. The world is sick, it needs medicine. This song is about healing.”
latest releases
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No Depression In Heaven
out on September 06, 2024
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Vanessa
out on August 13, 2024
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Do You Know How To Waltz
out on May 24, 2024
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Midwife / Planning for Burial Split
out on August 11, 2023
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Orbweaving
out on May 12, 2023
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Plague X
out on May 09, 2023
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