God’s Mom Introduce Debut Album ‘As It Was Given’

God’s Mom have introduced debut album ‘As It Was Given’.

The project unites Canadian artist Bria Salmena and filmmaker A. Matthews, blending clipped, sub-zero electronics with world-building capabilities.

Debut album ‘As It Was Given’ was constructed over a number of years, with Bria Salmena switching between her side hustles – intensive touring with FRIGS, and a member of Orville Peck’s live band – and this studio endeavour.

Working closely with A. Matthews, Salmena dipped into her heritage, the two finding inspiration in the cross-currents of underground club culture in Toronto and Rome.

In particular, Salmena began studying the polyphonic singing in Calabrese tarantella’s, pouring over recordings from the 1930s to the 1960s, before transplanting this into a modern electronic context.

She says: “In almost every track it was clear that singing was the purest form of expression, singing to release energy, pass the time, mourn the dead, and even happy songs are almost unlistenable at times. They sound far more raw than any punk singer I had ever heard”. 

New track ‘Maddalena’ is out now, and it serves as a microcosm of the album as a whole, driven forward by a righteous sense of purpose. Imagine the Italians Do It Better school, but actually Italian, and you wouldn’t be a million miles away from the mark.

Salmena adds: “I felt I could give a voice to the women in my lineage whose only value was seen in childbearing and serving men. God’s Mom’s performance and styling are not hedonism for the sake of hedonism, it’s a reckoning…”

Tune in now.

Photo Credit: Jacopo Paglione