Mallavora drop video for focus track ‘Host’

The debut Mallavora album ‘What If Better Never Comes?’ is out now via Church Road Records and streaming everywhere!

Mallavora have been capturing peoples attention on festival stages, TV screens and fashion shows over the last year. Drawing people under their spell with their carefully crafted compositions and compelling lyrical themes. Do yourself a favour and take a trip with their new album, and discover the diversity and versatility that lies within.

Watch the new music video for ‘Host‘

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For Mallavora, the music comes first and foremost, but behind their powerful music also lies equally powerful personal stories – a fierce honesty rooted in lived experience. Guitarist Larry Sobieraj channels his own experiences of chronic illness into the band’s instrumentals.

“It’s almost like a therapy tool to process these complicated and difficult things that a lot of people don’t understand, things that are hard to put into words,” he says. “I want to be able to sit there and listen to the music and feel how I felt while writing it.”

He passes his instrumentals to vocalist Jessica Douek, who uses her emotional response to the music to craft vocals. In essence, it’s a creative dialogue. “It makes it quite powerful in the sense that I can feel what he has written, and then I put that into words, associated with grief of becoming ill or losing a healthier version of yourself,” says Jessica, who is disabled and lives with fibromyalgia. “There’s a lot of rage about societal barriers and being treated differently.”

Tracklist:

1. Prologue
2. Smile
3. Waste
4. Lilith & Esther (feat. Banshee)
5. Hopeless
6. Break
7. Birth of a Sun
8. Sick
9. Walking the Edge of the Knife
10. Empty
11. Make the World Wait
12. Host
13. What if Better Never Comes?

Mallavora recently announced their album release show and biggest headliner to date. It will take place Friday May 8th at Exchange in Bristol. Tickets on sale now! 

Other upcoming shows include: 

07.04 London @ Downstairs at The Dome (supporting Banshee)
08.05 Bristol @ Exchange (headline album release show)
11.06 Guildford @ Boileroom (supporting Lake Malice)