Melissa Auf der Maur Announces First New Music in Over 15 Years With 'Bass Womb Room'

Melissa Auf der Maur will release her first new music in over 15 years this September.

What is on the album?

The album features a mix of old and new material. It includes several previously unreleased four-track demos Auf der Maur wrote and recorded in her Los Angeles living room during the Nineties. The new portion consists of eight "interlude" compositions created for an upcoming photography exhibit.

Auf der Maur used a Tascam 4-track machine for the old demos, employing acoustic guitar, layered vocals, bass, keyboard, and field recordings of everyday sounds. She described the songs as a personal refuge from industry pressure. "I wrote these songs in the context of rising pressure from the major label-driven music industry on myself and my peers to make glossy hit songs to dominate radio airwaves," she said in a statement. "These sounds are the quiet and private side of the girl who joined the big American major label rock band."

The new interludes incorporate archival audio from her time touring with Hole and Smashing Pumpkins, sampled from old audience recordings.

When is everything happening?