A multi-hyphenate artist, Ruby McKinnon creates melancholic folk music with a bedroom pop heart under the moniker Flower Face. Taking inspiration from her own vertiginous life experiences, alongside such varied sources as Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events, Jesus Christ Superstar, the oeuvre of Mads Mikkelsen and her dog Ziggy, Flower Face’s musical testimonials recall the jagged emotion of Bright Eyes while conjuring the ethereal ecstasy of a fresh wound. Speaking about her song "Valentine", she shares, "this is definitely the most miserable song on this record. When I was listening back to the rough mixes after we finished in the studio, I skipped it every time. It’s the one where I sort of rip my heart out of my chest and present it to the world on a plate, weak and bleeding and bare. It’s still hard for me to listen to, because it puts me back in a place that I worked so hard to get out of. It’s humiliating in the way that only love and heartbreak can be. The other songs on this record all carry a certain amount of power and defiance, but this one is just so weepy. It breaks the feeling down to its core: I love you so deeply, you hurt me so bad, I’m all out of poetry, you made me so sad. At a certain point you can only wrap so many beautiful words around a broken heart to make it more palatable: beneath that, there’s something so pathetic and desperate that needs to be let out."