[Cover photo credit to Elias Tahan]

Actress and musician Jena Malone has released new single + visualizer, “Create In Your Name.” The track “reflects on a longing for a transcendent connection by cutting through the distractions, illusions, and complexities of today’s hyper-digital world.” 

Malone explains:

‘Create In Your Name’ is about yearning to find something more divine in love and dating, despite the digital swampland we are all wading through. Literally wanting to not just date and make love, but to create in someone’s name…inspiration as the ultimate form of foreplay.

Jena Malone’s work spans acting, music, photography, poetry, and theatre. Known for her wide-ranging roles in film and television, the Golden Globe Award and two time Screen Actors Guild Award nominated actress has appeared in films including Donnie Darko, Pride & Prejudice, The Hunger Games franchise (as Johanna Mason), Love Lies Bleeding, Antebellum, and more. She has appeared in television series such as Too Old to Die Young, Goliath, and the upcoming Netflix series The Boroughs.

For Malone, what began as songwriting in Lake Tahoe evolved from video experiments, where she eventually incorporated sound design and vocals. Malone launched her experimental musical project, Jena Malone and Her Bloodstains, opening for Deerhunter in 2008 and releasing singles through Social Registry. She is also one half  of The Shoe with Lem Jay Ignacio, releasing the 2014 album I’m Okay. Now, Jena Malone is starting a new chapter, releasing music under her own name. She has set her sights on new music “exploring love, heartache, and desire.”