Critically acclaimed rising pop ‘witch’ Moyka has revealed her second EP ’Spaces’, and it comes with a brand new video for the song ‘Kanazawa (Maybe We Don’t Have To Go There)’, which is a collage of memories from a journey ”That never happened”.
At 23 years old Monika Engeseth (aka Moyka) has been gathering support for her finely crafted modern pop, which she writes and produces herself. As she explains: “Otherwise I don’t feel like the songs are mine. When it’s just my voice there it’s like I’m just a piece of the song; when I’m in the production as well that’s when I feel: ‘This song is mine.'”
‘Spaces’ includes four songs that deal with a break up Moyka went through last year. “The theme of this EP is mostly about the loss of a longterm love. It’s about losing both someone’s closeness and friendship, and how I’ve tried to fill in the spaces of what’s left of them. It’s about trying to both look forward and move on from the heartbreak.”
In 2019 Monika Engeseth emerged as an original artist, strong-minded and with deep songs on her debut EP Circles. The 23 year-old’s robust, synth-driven pop was full of strong but abstract feeling: co-written and co-produced with Eirik Hella, her songs plumbed the depths of the young adult mind without sentimentality. She explored what it’s like to be at a difficult age with an underlying sense of steely self-confidence. “I wanted to create a mystical universe,” she said, “where people could feel at home.”
