During the Grammy-award winning musician’s winter tour in 2021, MUNA served as her opener, giving the band another avenue to connect with one of their favorite artists. Maskin acknowledges that Kacey Musgraves’s Golden Hour left quite an impression, and seeped into their bones. MUNA taps into many musical genres, but there is an undeniable country undercurrent to a number of the tracks.
“There's something about that that I think we also mischievously enjoy.” “This record is probably our most sonically expansive album, it's impossible to put in a box,” Gavin says. Synth-tastic “What I Want” is perfect for the gay bar dance floor, and three tracks later, the moody, strings-heavy “Kind of Girl” makes you feel like you should blast it while driving a pickup truck through the countryside. On the flip side, the breakup anthem “Anything But Me” reaffirms the decision to call things quits because a relationship no longer feels right. “Home By Now” will make you bop along until you realize its emotionally eviscerating lyrics are about the “What if?”s of an expired romance. Thematically, MUNA’s bread and butter of love and relationships are all present on the new album. They returned to those DIY roots for MUNA, with a newfound level of maturity and perspective. For the second, they worked with a handful of co-producers.
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After RCA Records dropped them from the label in 2020, the bandmates took some much-needed time to assess if they still wanted to commit to making music together as a group, which led them to become, as McPherson puts it, “remarried to the notion and the concept of MUNA.” They’re now signed to Saddest Factor Records, the hit indie label run by Phoebe Bridgers, who features on “Silk Chiffon.” MUNA’s first album was a homemade project, produced with free audio plugins in a makeshift studio. MUNA made quite the statement when they arrived on the scene in 2016, and now, with MUNA the trio makes an even stronger declaration of who they are as artists. According to all three bandmates, there’s a level of self-assured voice on this project that comes from a place of knowing themselves better than ever before, making now the perfect time to use their band moniker as the title for their next album. Gavin is the only member on camera, while the McPherson and Maskin, are disembodied voices chiming in to answer questions. In early June, the band joined me on a Zoom call to discuss the release of their self-titled third album, MUNA, which will bow on June 24. “I don’t think we’re actually increasing the amount of tears, maybe giving the tears a vessel.”
“If our fans are anything like me, which I think a lot of them are, they’re probably already crying every day,” says Gavin, the lead singer. But if you ask all three members of the group, they're ecstatic to know that their music can stir up the sweet catharsis of tears. The bandmates-Katie Gavin, Naomi McPherson, and Josette Maskin-know they attract an audience of very sensitive listeners, from emotional young queers to delicate dads. It would be difficult to find a fan of theirs who hasn’t experienced both feelings while crooning along to “life’s so fun, life’s so fun” from “Silk Chiffon,” the viral track they released earlier this year. MUNA, the indie pop band with a cult following, has mastered the art of creating music and lyrics that can be both sung at the top of your lungs while jumping up and down with a throng of queer people and sung at the top of your lungs on a solo walk home, tears streaming down your face.