The musician from Brighton has faced issues that have changed his life for the past four years. In 2020, her father passed away unexpectedly, which led to a period of drug and alcohol misuse that made her bipolar disorder symptoms worse just as her career was about to take off.
While everything was in disarray, she wrote her debut album, putting all of her experiences into 15 eviscerating, gritty songs that alternated between rock, screamo, pop, emo, and nu metal.
It everything just came out, according to her. “I wrote songs when I was having a really low point and songs when I was having a high manic episode.”The record is laced with sarcasm throughout.
since that’s where I was at the time, yet it has a variety of dark tones.
As a result, the album can transition from Sugar Rush’s bubblegum melodies, which explore the joy of chasing highs while suffering from addiction, to Porcelain’s pulverizing chords, in which the 29-year-old faces the frailty of existence.