Description
Label Review.
2019 album. Rock.
Our Overview.
Molly Drag, the solo project of Michael Charles Hansford, started in Autumn of 2014. Encouraged by dear friends and driven by a desire for expression through music and the hope to create emotionally connecting and healing art, Hansford began releasing music online as Molly Drag. And now has just announced his forthcoming new studio album ’Touchstone’.
Each release is self-created, recorded and produced and is an act of honest, and often raw expression; a true catharsis for artist themself and listener alike. The music of Molly Drag creates a sense of wistful longing, heartache and noble beauty; like exploring the rooms of your childhood home, long since abandoned, light timidly filtering through dust-covered windows, illuminating all the memories that once filled its walls.
Molly Drag on ’Touchstone’: “While I was recording this album I started thinking about my hometown a lot, the small places within, the parks where I would smoke with my friends after school, the water that surrounded us always. I then contacted my high-school art teacher Ila who was an immense mentor for me, we rekindled our friendship.
"She said that I was always one of her “touchstone” students, immediately I asked her if I could use one of her paintings as the album cover. She said yes, and I also knew that it needed to be called touchstone. This album really is about growing up and how my great role models and teachers were the 3 women that taught me love, but also strength. This album is for my Mother, My Grandmother, and Ila... my art teacher.” Molly Drag