Mars Aspen Makes Peace With The Past On
Their New Single "baby teeth"
New EP Out February 6
Courageous enough to be vulnerable, Mars Aspen (they/them) gets real with their lush folk confessionals. This Ottawa-based songwriter digs into the hardest parts of intimate connections, spilling their heart so that you—in turn—can better understand your own.
Today, they share the EP’s title track, “baby teeth,” in which Aspen buries their baby teeth in the dirt, casting a spell in hopes that these little bits of who they were grow into whatever they need to be next. “baby teeth”, is a song about “how childhood influences the present and how things I have learned as a child have affected thoughts I continue to have,” says Aspen. “Towards the end of the song also resigns to the fact that I have to make peace with the past and continue moving forward.”
Listen to "baby teeth" here
On their new EP baby teeth, Aspen offers raw, direct snapshots into the ups and downs of past relationships with others—as well as their relationship with their own mental health. These songs “stem from past trauma,” Aspen explains. “I’m coming to terms with where I’ve been before, while honouring where I was at that time.” The clear-eyes songs describe when heartbreak feels like swallowing hot glue, when yearning pours out like juice, and when the remnants of relationships are—as Aspen sings it—’mushrooms and roots in the dirt with the beetles and moss’. With shades of Lizzy McAlpine and Imogen Heap, this EP epitomizes Aspen’s songwriting mantra: “The only way it works is to let it all out.”
