MOTHER is back with her second ever track ‘MOTIONS’, diving deeper into the curious and crushing universe they are building for themselves.

‘MOTIONS’ picks up where debut track ‘UNHOLY’ left off, but ups the ante when it comes to the beauty and brutality. Atmospherically stirring, fizzing with electronic energy and with plenty of metalcore bludgeoning through in for good measure, it’s modern metal at its most crisp and cathartic.

If MOTHER continues down this path, we may be onto quite the future phenomenon.

MOTHER had this to say about the tune:

“’MOTIONS’ is about becoming conscious of the cycles we knowingly submit ourselves to – the relationships, behaviours and patterns that hurt us, but somehow still feel impossible to leave. Our nervous systems can mistake familiarity for safety, even when what’s familiar is a living hell. ‘Live in the pain and call it a spark’ — that strange way we can romanticise pain or mistake intensity for something meaningful because it’s what we know. There’s a conflict running through the lyrics between desperately wanting out and being terrified of what exists on the other side.

And then added about the concept of the video:

“The video takes that internal struggle and makes it physical. MOTHER is gradually bound by cables and pulled towards the television, as if her own nervous system is taking control of her body. The BDSM imagery plays into the contradiction at the centre of it too – submission, pain and the uncomfortable possibility of finding pleasure or comfort in something that is hurting you. But by the end, that power dynamic has inverted. MOTHER is no longer the submissive; she becomes the dominant presence inside this darker internal world, while versions of herself stare and sing back through the screens. I deliberately didn’t want to explain whether that transformation is good or bad. Are those the voices in her head? Has she finally broken the cycle, or just found a new position within it? Is she confronting the darkness, becoming it, or realising some part of her has wanted it all along? Maybe healing and becoming your own monster aren’t always as different as we’d like them to be.“