TIMES WE SHARED IN INNOCENCE
Molly Donnery, 2024
IDEA | EP
We all come from something; places, families, moments. The unique arrangement of our own existence bestows us with a voice to share that is unlike any other. The challenge though, for any artist, is to find this voice, understand it, decode it, harness it, refine it, evolve it.
The voice could be defined as the closest we can come to being honest with ourselves. We’ll never truly get there, but it is in the pursuit of this honesty that creations are born, creations that express fragments of our soul.
Molly’s music is one of these instances in which the artist forms something entirely new because it is honest. Of course, raw talent is an important factor in allowing ideas to communicate such honesty, but there is a deeper kind of magic going on in this debut EP.
It reminds me of when Pharell heard Maggie Rogers for the first time. As he says “You have to be willing to seek, and you have to be willing to be real frank in your music, and frank in your choices.” It is clear, from only these few songs, that Molly is an artist who is willing to seek for something new through elements that will always make her who she is.
Music Video | Pull Me Under, dir. Katie O'Halloran
Lyrics | Ramble
Take all the pieces that you
shattered at the start
Try to hold you closely as I
push the walls apart
Caving in, caving in, oh it’s
caving in
Cuts over my body from my
fingers to my toes
I panic as the particles become
too small to hold
In the wind, in the wind, oh
they blow in the wind
and you watch as I scramble
Your words always did ramble
away fro me
Oh me
And I know that I chose this
Hold my own hand as my heart
closes quietly
Oh it closes so quietly
Hands deep in my pockets
trying to find a place to hide
Rings wrapped round like
armour as my knuckles turn to white
Hold it in, hold it in, Oh I’ll hold it in
acting like it’s easy is the only way to go
So glad I never mentioned you
nobody has to know
Secret sins, secret sins,
oh I’ll hold it in
And you watch as I scramble
Your words always did ramble
away from me
Oh me
And I know that I chose this
Hold my own hand as my heart
closes quietly
Oh it closes so quietly
Well hush now darlin’ (hush now darlin’)
Ease your mind
Misplace the memories
somewhere you won’t find
Well hush now darlin’ (hush now darlin’)
Ease your mind
Misplace the memories
somewhere you won’t find
You words always did ramble
away from me
Oh me
And I know that I chose this
Hold my own hand as my heart
closes quietly
Oh it closes so quietly
Well hush now darlin’ (hush now darlin’)
Ease your mind
Misplace the memories
somewhere you won’t find
Molly Donnery
Molly Donnery is an Irish angel in disguise.