Colorado-based singer/songwriter Greta Hotmer may be best known for stints as the frontperson of The Moxy and Leo Moon, along with collaboration with friends and former bandmates, including Nick Bozzelli, CKY‘s Jess Margera and Carl Pannell. Hotmer’s solo recording project Altarviolet sees her blending the electronic sounds of her youth with organic and analogue-ish bass synths to create material that’s “part nostalgia, part futuristic . . . the kind of music you can dance, cry, and sing your beautiful face off to all at once,” as she puts it.
The Colorado-based artist’s latest single “SOS” is features ayers of glistening synth arpeggios, Hotmer’s achingly plaintive vocals, skittering beats and shout-along worthy hooks and choruses. While sonically bringing Tori Amos and Banks to mind, “SOS” is rooted in lived-in experience — and as a result, it captures a narrator seemingly at the end of her rope. “Most of my songs are born from processing difficult feelings . . . music therapy at its finest. This song reflects a chapter in my life where I felt like I was stuck in a cycle that wouldn’t break no matter how I tried to change the situation or change myself. It is an ode to a time that I am grateful to have found the courage to step away from” Hotmer says.
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