As you may know, I (Micki) spent 2 months on a psych ward last year, it was by far the scariest and hardest thing I’ve ever done, but it saved my life. In a classic and perhaps cliche way, I managed to turn the experience into art. These are the demos from my hospital bed, the unedited, raw, painfully honest audio ripped from videos I took of the songs I wrote while I was in hospital and video messages I sent to various people. I’m releasing them because with the hard topics I write about, and songs in general, I don’t think there’s anything more authentic than when you’re in that moment. I’ve always wanted my lyrics and emotion to be the most important thing in my music, over any production value or commercial viability. I want my music to mean something to people. Because of this, It’s incredibly painful to listen back, but I’m hoping that if people relate they can find hope in my words. Even though I’m still fighting my demons, with the help of professionals, friends, family and my own strength I’ve come such a long way and that’s an important thing to remind yourself of. I listened to a lot of music myself that really helped me, notably Sufjan Stevens, Wish You Were Here, The Postal Service, Flatsound and so many more that gave me the strength that I want my music to give others.

I will be recording some of them ‘properly’ on my next album but I really felt like it was important and could possibly be helpful to get the demos out there, I didn’t always have privacy, so the audio is far from clean and far from uninterrupted, but this is ‘Demos From A Hospital Bed’

(any money I get from sales will be going directly into the recording of my next album and the tour I’m planning around that)

Thanks so much for reading/listening