One knows Monica Richards' music not just from her unmistakeable style but from the heart she puts in her work.Her new album, Naiades (named after mythological Greek seanymphs), is a melt-in-your-ear masterpiece, a perfect mix of strength and vulnerability in both sound and vision. Monica says, "The focus of Naiades is really about water…I feel I have undergone a Sea Change, though I'm the same on the surface, I've changed profoundly from within. Thus I focused on its power, its delicacy, its long-lasting permanence,its strength, its depth-and the artworks also based on water creatures. "Monica described her first solo album, Infrawarrior, as electro-tribal focusing on "the power within" as well as songs based on Matriarch almythologic al themes. With her new album, Naiades, we can see that the connection between Woman and Nature is still a prominent theme in Monica's work...Monica has truly come into her own as an artist, adding new elements of her own tribal style to harderrock anthems and neoclassical work, creating an all new level of expression, and at times, all the more personal, especially in songs like "WeGoOn" and "Lureinlay".