MYNOLIA RELEASES DEBUT LP 'All Things Heavy'

Photo: Leonardo Julian Rossi

Berlin-based artist Mynolia has released her debut LP, All Things Heavy, via Bronze Rat Records. Mynolia’s music is both personally and globally invested. Her lyrics bring out a universal vulnerability, such as in “White Noise.” A lub-dub, lub-dub backing beat suggests the heartbeats that stand in for companionship. “Sometimes I need to know that there’s heartbeats close to mine,” she sings between gauzy ooh's and ahh's, encapsulating the loneliness that drives the dreamlike song.

The young artist is especially gifted at crafting melodies, whether she’s phrasing her lyrics or collaging non-verbal singing. She has an intuitive sense of knowing where to layer, where to strip down, and where to be bare. Traditional folk choirs, eastern flute music, choral singing, and opera helped round out her vocal development. The electronic elements tilt the singer closer towards Men I Trust or Bat for Lashes. “I just spiral around facing every direction,” she says, and this explains her musical influences, songwriting habits, and philosophy on social change.

Though the album is titled All Things Heavy, Mynolia’s personality is more balanced. “My driving force is discomfort and connection, making room for the spectrum of emotions we all face, while laughing at it,” she says. 

On Mynolia’s sharp debut All Things Heavy, the singer invents herself as a vulnerable dreamer, armored only by heavenly melodies as she moves through an increasingly disconnected world.