Via Mardot - Via Mardot (2020)

“There’s something about French pop music and French artists that have always intrigued me. It’s the mystique! And the way that ‘ye-ye’ pop was really so different than a lot of other things in America in the ’60s. I wanted to write something that was kind of an ode to that. I’m also obsessed with listening to movie soundtracks. I have always wanted to score a film, and that was part of my interest in Via Mardot— to try to write more true to myself and write songs that will, like a movie, but different kinds of visuals in the listener’s head.”

Via Mardot has been steadily taking over Mainville for the last two or three years— and that kind of sounds a bit like an Exorcist/Frankenstein kind of thing, but it’s true. It’s not a typical ‘alter ego,’ but more so a new form, a new being, a new identity, for this songwriter. “I just looked to my main inspirations and saw how they were always true to themselves, and it felt like the right time to do something that I really wanted to do.”