Flower Face Announces New Album Kill The Muse, Stereogum Presents Show In Brooklyn Next Week

In 2024, Flower Face's sprawling fourth album Girl Prometheus earned her our Artist To Watch honor. Now, Ruby McKinnon is announcing its followup Kill The Muse, arriving next year. Stereogum is presenting her sold-out show at Brooklyn's Public Records one week from today on Thursday, Nov. 5.The new single "Better The Devil" is out now, following August's "Bad Dream." "I remember so vividly the moment I wrote this song," the Montreal musician says of "Better The Devil." She expands:I was walking home from the metro station after spending the day at my producer Marcus’s studio working on the finishing touches of my last album. I was living alone, and I had spent the better part of the last year isolating myself as much as possible (when I wasn’t partying or pursuing awful, destructive relationships). My friends had all started a sobriety kick on January 1st, which I wasn’t inclined to join. It was the dead of winter, the worst time of year, when the sun sets at 4 PM, and I spent most evenings counting down the minutes until I could go to sleep. That night a friend was supposed to stay over, but she canceled, and I knew it was because she was pursuing her own awful, destructive on-and...