Formidable lyricist T.M/O returns to your ears, hearts, screens, and stages, a modern day Odysseus, no really. Back from the dead with nine prop fibroids, a couple of new battle scars, and an origin story so inspiring, so ridiculous, so frustrating. She is the art. A proven vessel of resilience, she may be the only artist to perform a Sofar Sounds set mid kidney failure, but she hasn’t had time to check.
The former ‘poet, painter/nightmare’, has evolved, and recognizes her realities as they now stand; alchemist. Advocate. Witness.Director. Survivor. T.M/O has been leaving spoken word fans in tears, quaking, cackling, and questioning themselves up and down the UK notoriously since 2019, performing alongside chart-topping Nxdia, and the voice’s broken pen. An artist sculpted by unbelievable truths and a quest for justice, she speaks to and for those who have been thrust into corners they had no idea how to get out of, for every ‘other’ who can relate to losing momentum in the search for self.
New single ‘Wilson’ – 140 bpm – ‘drop me into fire I will ride my horse, I will remind the lightning it was calm before” a drum and bass anthem for every castaway, every other, every rejected. Produced by PaleBlu, this track is a lyrically defiant journey through burning bridges and systems that do not serve you. Inspired by falling elevators, life-altering instances, and the relationship between rock bottom and sky high, this tune is slamming the doors open post hiatus.
Armed with the sharpest word weaponry, 28 staples is a multi-genre commentary, a cinematic wrong turn through existentialism, from somebody who has truly seen the edges of it.
The debut album that very almost wasn’t. Ready to release as an EP in 2024, T had a real and terrifying rug pull experience with her health, when fibroids had become a critical issue, and summer got cancelled due to the most avoidable of near-death experiences. 9 major surgeries and 28 Staples later, the EP became the album that is now the soundtrack to a full-length film (in progress) with videographer Searle, highlighting the madness of this female’s experience. Ultimately, this is a reaction to the health crisis that was so close to costing T her life, and the broader, accumulative struggles that impact every woman every day, in every workplace and every relationship.
SOURCE: Official Bio
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