Maggie Andrew releases 'Survival Mode', completing her trilogy exploring past trauma
Maggie Andrew today releases the final track in her musical trilogy, ‘Survival Mode’. The most stripped back, raw and arguably heartbreaking song in the collection, ‘Survival Mode’ is dominated by Andrew’s emotive and connective vocals as she processes the emotion of being truly alone. “I’m mean to myself so no-one else can do it…I just got comfortable being alone / But don’t leave me alone.”
“‘Survival Mode’ is the final moment in the trilogy, where I am truly alone, in the presence of nobody else but myself,” Andrew says. “I’ve been in a constant state of survival for as long as I can remember. Being alone drowning in my own self deprecating thoughts and traumatic experiences. Even though it’s sad, it’s comfortable being alone, I never want anybody to feel bad for me.”
The trilogy retells Andrew’s coming of age as she left her home in Nova Scotia, escaping a toxic and abusive relationship, to start a new life and recover from the trauma she had encountered. First single ‘Honda Civic’, with its pulsing beat and otherworldly, late night sheen details the first step on her journey, leaving everything behind, while last month’s dark electro-rap ‘ILMIHM’ looks at the deep seated anxiety and self-doubt that follows any traumatic experience. ‘Survival Mode’ wraps up the journey with the acknowledgment she has survived despite the scars that will always be there.
“Honda Civic is about me leaving Nova Scotia and starting a whole new life, leaving my old life behind, including my Honda Civic and my toxic ex boyfriend who tried to hold me back from chasing my dreams,” she says. “It’s a song about saying goodbye to the old me and the old reality I used to live and stepping into a new array of self love and confidence.”
“I want this to be a segue for people to know they’re not alone, they have someone, I’m here,” she continues. “I want the women and men who are all going through things to know I’m in your corner. I’ve been through it. For the longest time I felt like I didn’t have a voice, and communication was a skill that I lacked because of an abusive boyfriend who would yell over top of me. I’m not a victim of anything that happened to me; all those people are losers. Now I’m here. This is my calling to be here and to be this person who is a strong symbol of someone who can go through all that trauma and still be powerful.”
Maggie Andrew has been releasing music since 2019, but with this trilogy there is a sense she has really come into her own, creating the best music of her career to date in the process. An artist to watch closely over the coming years, Maggie Andrew is only going to get bigger and better.
‘Survival Mode’ is out now via Black Box Recordings. You can download and stream here.
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