Two of the most prominent women in the Australian heavy music scene, RedHook’s Emmy Mack and Yours Truly‘s Mikaila Delgado, join forces on Imposter – the flagship single from alt-rock shapeshifters RedHook’s forthcoming debut album Postcard From A Living Hell, which is slated for release on Friday, April 21.
Produced by Stevie Knight (Stand Atlantic, Yours Truly) and mixed by James Paul Wisner (Underoath, Paramore), Imposter is a dark, empowering break-up anthem driven by alien synths, heavy guitars, and striking lyrics. Packed with memorable one-liners such as “Never believed in lizard people / Til I discovered your scales”, “Hearts change like the weather / And now it’s raining on you“, and “We used to freak / But now you freak me out”, Imposter uses the sci-fi trope of body snatching as a metaphor to articulate a traumatic experience that both Emmy and Mikaila share; watching someone you love change into a completely different person, before a heartbreaking trail of their past lies and deceptions starts to unravel before your eyes.
Emmy explains the inspiration behind the track: “There’s no head-fuck quite like discovering that the person you love most, and who you think you know better than anyone else, has been lying to you and manipulating you the entire time. At first, it feels like death, you grieve for the person you loved as if they’ve died, and yet somehow they still exist. It’s almost as if some kind of evil, alien life force has taken up residence inside their body and is walking around wearing their skin. Eventually, it causes you to question your own sanity; you question whether that person who meant so much to you ever really existed at all.”
