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English artist Alice Suki Waterhouse is releasing her new album Memoir of a Sparklemuffin tomorrow.
The album title reflects the singer finding herself resonating with a cannibalistic spider discovered in Australia, named Maratus jactatus, nicknamed sparklemuffin.
“It does this razzle-dazzle dance, and will be cannibalised by its mate if she doesn’t approve of the dance,” Suki said in an interview.
“It’s a metaphor for the dance of life we’re all in. The title felt hilarious, ridiculous and wonderful to me,” she added.
Suki claims that the album, which is being released two years after her debut project I Can’t Let Go, was inspired by changes that occurred in her life, as its main theme revolves around the concept of ‘rebirth’.
“I kind of felt like this record was a metamorphosis (change of physical form) something new, a new season of life, I was thinking about metamorphosis, I was like ‘Could it be a butterfly?’ But no, I don’t feel like a butterfly. I feel more like this scraggly spider that hasn’t always got it together.”
Indie pop artist Alice Suki Waterhouse is also a model and an actress. She began her modelling career at the age of 16 and her first feature film was British crime thriller Pusher (2012) in which she played a minor role.
She released her debut single Brutal in November 2016, followed by the single Good Looking the next year, which became a hit in 2022.
According to Spotify, the 32 year-old singer currently has around 10 million monthly listeners on the music streaming platform.
