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mess head

by Nika Mo

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It's taken something like three months for it to sink in My grandma's birthday came this year, it made me think of you again Something in the heavy air, steam from the bathwater on my skin made me feel as if we're there, on the tiled floor in Tokyo at 2am It'll still be Australia Day even though we're not there to hear the Hottest 100 play I can imagine those exploding stars on the river at midnight That night we drank ourselves awake, needed more booze to kick on And when the other's left like fools we kissed each other as we fell amongst the futons Later in the night we cried and held each other on the floor I locked the bathroom door, I've never cried like that in front of anyone before I took off all my clothes I got into the bath to soak myself in all my woes but you came in and said, Please, Anni, I can't see you cry anymore and then you lifted me out of the water and you took me to bed It's still the same time of day though we're seasons apart and a Pacific Ocean away It's still 10:30am and I know the kettle will be on Now it's our first Christmas apart It's been 10 months since our trip to Japan We said we'd go back in a year or so with your family well, honey, how I fucked that plan I fucked it all up, dear I didn't think that it would be like this by the end of the year And I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I say I'm sorry I left you I'm sorry I still showed up late at your place that time And I'm sorry
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messhead 02:43
Forget what you're after, lover, danger's after you She's returned a stranger while you've stayed here like a pet at the door Dear Mess Head, pull the strings together, you're pathetic Can't you get a little better? You're ok without another mess head lover You feel stupid, dear, like another's housekeeper You've been counting days in case she gets back earlier Stop it sad girl you're not like this usually you're a getter Take some time off from being the upsetter, lover you're ok with pushing numbers It's catching, I've been unlike myself lately Distracting, been locking myself out lately It's catching Geranium lover take me Distracting
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Nearly but not quite a Simpson's sky today Try all I might the doves won't go away Olive branches overgrow into my room Windowsill a forrest ungroomed It feels nice to know you stand somewhere solid at last A landscape painting of my heart looks like the Great Sandy Desert, love
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Divination 03:19
Divination rules my mind these days and the cards dictate every move I make. Zodiac tactics replace my usual antics, most of my friends can't stand it. Divination: stuck in the fortune sphere Every word I hear might be the one that foretells my end is near And every seer's eye might see my imminent demise, so divination rules my mind Divination, oh in my mind the supreme Divine has got a hold on me
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The Window 03:20
There is some kiss we want with our whole lives, the touch of Spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild Darling! At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face into mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door, and open the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window
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I took my mother's scarf across Japan The train to Matsumoto, misty white moaning of the land reminded me of a movie I'd seen that my mother used to put on for me on the big tv I took my mother's scarf to Tokyo Our apartment was a matchbox with our mattress on the floor In the bathroom I cried for my grandma Joan for not reading to her at night, for leaving her alone My mother is the saint of all saints and her mother was one too I took my mother's scarf across Japan to keep me warm when the wind blew I took my mother's scarf to Shinjuku Gyoen the garden was perfection but it still wasn't as perfect as my gran's The sakura reminded me of the blossoms on the stone fruit trees that lined my grandma's fence guarding the deceased My mother is the saint of all saints and her mother was one too I took my mother's scarf across Japan to keep me warm when the wind blew

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messhead, the debut EP from Nika Mo, explores garage-folk and lo-fi textures, finding poetic beauty in the Perth mundane.

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released August 17, 2018

Written & recorded by Annika Moses. Mixed by Annika Moses and Alexander Turner. Mastered by Sam Wylde.

This EP was written and recorded on the land of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation. I acknowledge their elders past, present and emerging.

Photo by Rohan Bacskai & design by Annika Moses

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Nika Mo Perth, Australia

Making and performing on Whadjuk Noongar boodjar. Sovereignty was never ceded.

Melancholy-folk that makes the Perth mundane sound somewhat poetic.

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