UK hard rockers, Molly Karloff, unleash their eagerly awaited debut album, Breaking Out, on Friday 6th October via Molly Makes Records. We exclusively caught up with the electrifying trio and asked them to give us a track-by-track breakdown of the album.
You Don’t Know My Name
This track was written around the same time as the title track from the second EP, Supernaturalation, featuring the same baritone guitar tuned down to dropped A. Opening with a big, catchy riff, the power continues with some in your face vocals, before you’re taken to the open, choral hooks of the chorus. After a breakdown, the guitar solo kicks in at full pace with some fast, syncopated runs broken up by bluesy melodic phrases, before exiting back to the final chorus.
The song tackles being underestimated and put down by others, but not accepting what you’re told, or what everyone else “buys into”. Make your own path; don’t accept convention.
In The Night
Lyrically, this track tackles mental health issues, but on a more serious and severe level. It’s for people suffering with debilitating mental health problems that literally take over everything, upsetting their plans and general progress in life. The chorus riff was the basis upon which the rest of the track was written, and as with most of our riffs, must have that groove and hook. The vocals just kind of follow that pattern too, with the rest of the song just falling into place.
We live in a patriarchal society, which holds back women in numerous areas of their lives. As men, we can’t possibly hope to understand it, but we can recognise it and stand against it. The riff is deliberately heavy and aggressive while still maintaining the groove we love. Based on a riff written by our bassist, Dan, the subject matter seemed to lend itself to the music. The aggressive hammering against that glass ceiling to the open floating atmosphere of the chorus (the release).
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Faceless
Based on a riff from Simon’s hoard of hooks and grooves he keeps locked up in his head and iPhone, this one is for everyone sick of the backbiting, bickering haters who would love to cut down any success you might have. To those who are sticking it to the faceless bullies from school or online, this one is for you. The rest of the tune was a rework of another song long forgotten from the vaults of Molly Karloff; that’s all we can say.
Cult of Personality
Taking a guitar riff and then stripping everything but the basic components away worked for this tune. Much of the opening riff used throughout the verses is filled with muted strumming, letting the drums do the work. A classic case of less is more. Lyrically, this track is loosely based on the likes of Trump and others in society who think they’re above the law/rules that everyone else must live by; it’s kind of self-explanatory.
Breaking Out
The title track of the album, this carries the theme of the album with it. Breaking out of your scene, your lifestyle, your thankless job, or whatever it may be for you. Breaking out of taboos, breaking out of convention. The best way to break through is to groove, and as we like to do, this track carries it all, with a cheeky wink and a smile while you groove out in your new lifestyle!
Black Flame
We’re killing the planet. This song is part of the fight back, in an entertaining way, of course! More of a headbanger than a tune to dance to, we’re still into fighting the greed that ruins everything on the planet while you trip out to our tunes. The song is darker in nature, with a big opening riff that carries the rest of the song to the chorus.
Automatic
Some people think everything in life is a competition, and “getting ahead” means trampling on others. The suffering of others is acceptable if you benefit; a message that permeates most of society and rarely get questioned by most. Well, we’re here to question that status quo while we entertain you at the same time. Just let the lyrics infiltrate your psyche while you float in the riffs and grooves.
Ain’t Gonna Dance
Coercive, abusive controlling relationships. We don’t need to say anymore. Witnessing this kind of thing as a child stays with you. The fear that controls the whole family. But what if the abs never had a relationship? What if you went back to before that relationship started and it never happened? What if you never spoke to that person, or agreed to dance with them?
Broken Crown
To finish the album off, we think yet another catchy riff is in order. So that’s what’s served up here, while discussing those misbehaving celebrities who have fallen from grace, and nobody ever talks about anymore. The ones that used to grace the covers of the magazines but have swapped the glitterati for obscurity through their own misdemeanours. We think they would’ve benefitted from listening to this one! Ha!
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