Die for Love album by Mohawk Castle: A Brave and Beautiful New Chapter.

With Die for Love, Los Angeles-based artist Mohawk Castle (formerly Prison Escapee) has released a gritty and genre-bending record that showcases Erik David Hidde’s artistic privilege as it was entirely created in his living room. His debut full-length album, Die for Love, delivers nine tracks of personal and emotional treatise about love, revelation, devotion, and mortality. 

Drawing from influences ranging from Lou Reed, Jim Morrison, and Nick Cave and a spiritual flavor inspired by Jesus Christ, the album provides a fascinating view into Hidde’s sonic universe that is navigated through emotional terrain. From healing, struggle, and transformation, this album moves continuously through subtle moments of despair to reconcile experiences of resilience. As I listened to tracks like “Shed Tears”, for example, which delivered a haunting meditation on his father’s battle with cancer, their atmospheric and lo-fi production reshaped a lens to a world hardly occupied by someone who openly comments on their struggle with addiction and all the complexity that comes with it.

In contrast is Hidde’s stark contrast of managing grit and grace. His words are poetical, vulnerable, and tangible, each line penned from memories of downtown living in Long Beach as a father, and letting go of being a newborn version of himself. Die for Love is more than an album; it is an emotional rebirth.

Die for Love represents a high point in Mohawk Castle's development and a true landmark in indie trap rock, with beautiful cover art from LG Williams, and a cohesive sonic identity.

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