French artist Swan Wisnia, under her solo project molto morbidi, announces her second album Maybe Marcel for release on April 17th via No Salad Records. An experimental album forged in both tenderness and turmoil, combining art / weird pop and baroque pop, the album moves between the intimate and raw to the playful and inventive, creating a universe that is at once dark and hopeful.
"What inspires me are artists who stand by their influences while transcending traditions," she explains. "Artists who are recognisably their own."
Written and recorded between January and June 2025, her brand new offering emerged during a period of profound difficulty, as Wisnia's mother was hospitalised following a severe stroke. Traveling frequently between Bordeaux and her home in Le Mans, Wisnia found solace in creating music, immersing herself in sound to process her emotions. "The only thing I was really able to do was make music. It would throw me into a universe of sound where I could focus on something I could control," she says. "Oddly enough, I have really fond memories of that period, despite being psychologically quite fragile."
Drawing inspiration from everything from Siouxsie Sioux to The Raincoats to Broadcast, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, and ESG, Wisnia balances melodic sensibility with the experimentally daring, creating a body of work that is both timeless and wholly original.