[Cover photo credit to Matteo Gueli]

Montreal Goth-Folk artist Flower Face has released her fourth album, Girl Prometheus, about “the kind of heartbreak that nearly kills you.”

Composed of stories that “capture the stages of grief and what comes after,” Girl Prometheus also “reflects on why these intense emotions can make us feel the most alive.” 

Following 2022’s The Shark In Your Water, and after experiencing a shocking breakup, artist Ruby started writing more than she had ever before.

She says:

This year I’ve been writing in a way that feels transcendent. This sounds cliché, but it’s almost like finding religion. For the first time, I dove headfirst into creation and let everything else go. It’s been like constant revelations, it’s overwhelming but it’s beautiful. It’s become less of an ephemeral thing that just seems to happen to me sometimes and more of a tool for survival. I’ve realized that to me, my writing is paramount—it’s the only thing that matters. As long as I have that, I’m okay.

Produced by Marcus Paquin at Studio PM in Montreal and partially recorded offsite at a secluded lake house, Girl Prometheus, as a title, started out as a joke after Ruby and some friends went to the movies to see Oppenheimer.

She shares:

There’s a quote at the beginning: ‘Prometheus stole fire from the Gods and gave it to man; for this he was chained to a rock and tortured for eternity. My friends would say, ‘You’re like Prometheus if he was a girl, because you’re being chained to a rock and tortured for eternity by your love. You stole love from the gods, you brought it to a man, and now you’re being tortured eternally.

Flower Face also dropped her new “Loveline” Podcast where she takes voicemails and emails from fans looking for advice on life, love, family, work, and any other topic that comes up. Find the first three episodes of the Loveline podcast on YouTube and Spotify.