Exclusive album premiere of ‘My Mother Was Science Fiction’ by Mosaic Runes, the independent electronic project of Shane McCarthy. Out April 20th via Weisskalt Records. Tape will be released June 29th 2023.

The album was written and recorded in McCarthy’s home studio north of Baltimore MD. Using unsynced machines, synths, drum machines, field samples, record samples, percussion, computer software and multiple other electronic tools, the album was created during a 10 week span of early morning sessions from January to March 2023.

‘My Mother Was Science Fiction’ consists of 9 tracks flowing together with sprawling variations in emotion and landscape, abstractly drawing meanings found within religion, creation, life and death but as it might be perceived in parallel universes and science fiction narratives.

Like the planets to the solar system, the songs emanate different and occasionally volatile atmospheres but still orbit around the same central energy. Mosaic Runes’ signature essence of liminal spaces is ever-present.

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The opening track ‘Cradling the Golden Dawn’ exhales a peaceful tone for the first few songs as the listener arrives at each new place; greeted with comfort but left with lingering curiosity and a sense of uneasiness. Track 4, ‘Acid Pool Baptism’ bewilders with an intense sonic assault on the traveler, a plunge into harsh landscapes and fractured sounds.

Throughout the rest of the album, we are shown the deeper elements of Mosaic Runes’ fictional universe with tracks diving into subterranean cold spaces and religious altars on ancient alien planets as the album closes with ‘Gift of the Mosaic Order’.

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