2014, remastered

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these tracks are emphatically not good. I myself was not good. but in the wake of releasing Boy of the Year, I wanted to release something that shows how far I've come - not only sonically, as far as musicality and engineering, but also personally. BOTY (March 20th, 2020) is going to be a celebration of all i am/can be. it's a festival of becoming.

but this is where medusa came from. it was an accident.

these songs were recorded on garageband in 2014, directly into my laptop's microphone. alone, in a room. i had just left college, at 19; after a series of assaults by a stalker, I learned my closest friends had been having conversations about how I was making it all up. that stab didn't just cause me the immediate inconceivable pain. it ached and festered.

now completely alone, i was using substances and bad behaviors every day, many times, just to fill the time and cope. i cannot describe how sick i was. sometimes i cannot believe i am alive.

i found solace in making weird, looped, witchy reverby messes with devil/god allegories (still do that) and i kept it secret. i named myself Medusa because she had been wronged as well, made to be a monster, an eldritch horror, a grotesque villain, when indeed she had been wronged. yeah so i was a little martyry okay. but i was 19.

i intended to keep medusa a secret, but people found out. the first time i was asked to perform, i pulled up a garageband project file on my computer and played with the EQ because I didn't know what to do. i didn't know what an XLR was.

then requests kept coming. suddenly i have an album. then two. three. I have sent merch to 3 continents. i'm editing videos. somebody's doing drag to my song. people in the city are yelling my lyrics back at me.

it is incredible to me that something i began because i was so, so alone has somehow brought me closer to more people than i have ever been in my entire life.

i can't wait to put out BOTY in a week and a half. but until then, enjoy this revisitation of my origins - plus, BOTY is going to sound GREAT by contrast, holy hell. i have learned so much. imagine what these sounded like before, too.

wild. all wild.

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released March 9, 2020

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MEDUSA Buffalo, New York

Medusa is a "revenge pop" musician based in New York. They're pretty sure they subconsciously stole calling their music "___-pop" from their friend Zand, who coined "ugly-pop," but it's way too late in the game to undo it now.

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