May The Muse challenges her demons with stunning new cut "When Mercury Fades"

Moving to a new city can be a difficult and disorientating experience, packing up your whole life and starting again with nothing and no-one. This is the position May The Muse aka Désirée Dorothy Mishoe found herself in when she first arrived in Berlin. Used to moving around thanks to her Dad's ties to the military, stepping out on her own felt different.

“I wrote the EP at one of the lowest points in my life," she explains. “I had just moved to Berlin, but I didn’t know anyone, and I felt very lonely and isolated. I was short on money and very unsure where my future lay."

These feelings of alienation and her struggle to fit-in make-up the lyrical themes which run through the four tracks on her debut EP. "It's me figuring out how I fit into my surroundings," she adds. Inspired by "nature vs. nature" everything started to come together once she set up her home studio and started writing.

"The song ‘When Mercury Fades’ was the first song I wrote for it," she adds "I instantly started to feel better..." Describing the tracks, she says it's "a discourse with my own demons where I somehow managed to give myself enough room to process and heal. I deliberately stopped judging my own thoughts, created some sort of fantasy world and escaped the depression."

Her bewitching vocals hook you in as she tells her story and the subtle production heightens the emotion which is pouring out. The light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak, Mishoe begins to realise her power and potential when she's finally out of the dark cloud.