Featuring the spellbinding new single and video “Isabella Rossellini”
Out Now via Starfish Records
Viennese artist Silvia Ryder, known to many as one half of beloved dreampop duo Sugarplum Fairies, returns today with the release of Monday’s Child—her second full-length album under her solo moniker My Violence. Out now via Starfish Records, the LP cements Ryder as a singular force within the world of noir-pop, slowcore, and spectral dream music.
Following a summer of gorgeously brooding singles—including “Paper Bag Princess” and “Underground”—Monday’s Child arrives as a fully realized, cinematic universe. It’s a record steeped in melancholic mystique, where emotional truth floats through velvet darkness and memories flicker like Super 8 film.
A NEW ERA OF DREAMLIKE NOIR-POP
Critics have already been transfixed by Ryder’s evolution:
“Ryder orbits influences both spectral and grounded… Think Maria Somerville’s hushed intensity, Primitive Heart’s stark poetics, or the spectral spellwork of Zola Jesus.” — Post-Punk
“A sonic world built on haunting vocals and atmospheric soundscapes.” — EARMILK
“Ryder continues to assert My Violence as a distinctive voice in dreamlike noir-pop—think late-night drives and memories that flicker like old tape.” — The Big Takeover
Across the album, Ryder expands the sound she introduced on her 2023 debut, weaving threads of Americana-folk, shoegaze haze, and pop minimalism into something darker, richer, and almost otherworldly. Produced and mixed by Marlon Rabenreither (Gold Star), Monday’s Child feels like a collection of sonic vignettes—each track its own dimly lit room, its own emotional séance.
THE SPELL OF “ISABELLA ROSSELLINI”
The album’s focus track, “Isabella Rossellini,” functions as the project’s emotional nucleus. It’s a slow, trembling exhale—an intoxicating meditation on infatuation, betrayal, loneliness, and devotion. Ryder’s tender, whispered vocals linger like a secret, while the arrangement swells with a kind of ghostly warmth. The track is both delicate and volatile, evoking Mazzy Star’s soft ache and the smoky nocturnal glow of classic noir cinema.
The accompanying video amplifies the track’s surrealism, pairing Ryder’s dreamlike presence with imagery that feels lifted from an intimate fever dream.
A RECORD OF SHADOWS, MEMORY & MEANING
Monday’s Child takes its name from the 19th-century English fortune-telling rhyme—an apt framing device for an album obsessed with fate, emotional inheritance, and the quiet rituals of self-examination. The songs move with slowcore restraint and cinematic gravitas, conjuring a haunted inner landscape where desire and memory blur.
There are familiar traces of Sugarplum Fairies’ atmospheric shimmer, but My Violence is unmistakably its own entity—more intimate, more spectral, and more daring in its emotional excavation.
Ryder has crafted a world where melancholy doesn’t suffocate; it illuminates. Where stillness is a canvas, and where every whispered lyric feels like a confession delivered in candlelight.
