Kristine Leschper (fka Mothers) announces her new album, The Opening, Or Closing Of A Door, with a self-directed video for its lead single “Ribbon.” The Opening, Or Closing Of A Door is available for pre-order now and due March 4th via ANTI- Records.
“I found myself wanting to explore love songs, and this is really the framework of The Opening, Or Closing Of A Door,” says Leschper. “‘Ribbon’ is a love song that holds a certain tension — it is the taut line of attempting to read the intentions of another, built with imagery of opposing materialities: a knife meets a ribbon, asking for a kind of vulnerability. A suggestion of something new emerging at this intersection.”
The Opening, Or Closing Of A Door is a paean to the sensory world. It’s the first Leschper has released under her given name, having retired the moniker Mothers after eight years of performing and releasing music under it. Though both projects are guided by Leschper’s idiosyncratic approach to songwriting, they couldn’t sound more different. While Mothers drew inspiration from the stark, skeletal sounds of post-punk and contemporary folk, Leschper’s new work is practically baroque, integrating an array of synthesizers, strings, woodwinds, and over a dozen percussive instruments.
