Miesha and the Spanks - 'Moms Jeans // Moms Genes'
Miesha and The Spanks continue releasing with their new single, ‘Mom Jeans // Mom Genes’ as they continue to build up suspense for their upcoming album ‘Unconditional Love in Hi-Fi’ which will be releasing on the 14th of April.
Within this new single, we experience a new side of Louie that we have not seen before. The sensation from Miesha and The Spanks is like a primal, surging impulse that takes over your whole body like an involuntary contraction, with vocals as crisp and clean as a freshly laundered pair of dungarees are stitched up with a pulsating warning siren that sways with the seesaw momentum of a heavy metal pendulum.
The new single, ‘Mom Jeans // Mom Genes’ delves into the universal desire to return to a golden age of nostalgia and reclaiming our old young bodies. This frustration that is best expressed with a rebel yell, and Miesha and The Spanks demonstrate this through punk vocals and intense bass which also shows the parallels of their music chaos of parenthood.
The video that accompanies this single illustrates Louie’s reality of motherhood. As the duo sings, we get an inside look of what Louie’s other part of life is like, through clips of her young twins. As she sings: “Mom genes for the babe who won’t sleep at night / Mom genes for the kid who wants to put up another fight / Mom genes for the mom times that we’ve lost / Mom jeans for the mom bod that I’ve got.” Spiralling over the yawning abyss of parenthood, singer and guitarist Miesha Louie stalks her own distorted self-image through the maternity ward of distorted guitars and percussionist Sean Hamilton’s cyclical rhythm method.
Louie describes the new single as more than just the new mom-fit jeans that she wears, it is just a metaphor. She states that. “It's also the super tough mom genes that get us through that day to day of ups and downs and emotional manipulations and breakthroughs and pure joy that come with our role as Matriarch.” And continues through the “adjustment and the struggle to accept that adjustment is heavy. Like most of my music, writing Mom Jeans // Mom Genes was a way for me to process all those feelings, whether or not there was any conclusion to be reached.”
Miesha and The Spanks new single will be followed by the release of the new album, ‘Unconditional Love in Hi-Fi’ on the 14th of April, while they continue their Europe and U.S tour.
Words by Beth Simms
