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Mozart Sister's "Good Thing Bad Thing" is 100% Good

Definitely sounds nothing like Shakespeare's Sister.

Mozart's Sister shot by Vaness Heins.

Caila Thompson-Hannant creates music that embraces chaos. Under the moniker Mozart’s Sister, her music is a collision of genres which distinguishes her from pre-packaged, radio ready-pop, and damn if it isn’t beautiful. On her new track “Good Thing Bad Thing,” she expertly tows the line between bubblegum and grit.

“You can’t get a good thing without a bad thing,” she cries, and this duality is consistent throughout the rest of the song. Sure, there’s a clear musical build (without an EDM-esque drop, thankfully) but this is definitively left-leaning pop. Cutesy handclaps are pitched against souldful yelps and yowls – a bit like Jessie Ware and Mariah Carey gone off the deepend – and moreover, Caila wrote, recorded, and produced the album herself.

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The Montreal-based songstress received a heady dose of buzz for her debut EP, Hello, last year, and now she’s set to drop her first full-length – Being – on 8/5 (via Asthmatic Kitty the States and Paper Bag Records in Canada). Until then, feel free to hit the repeat button on “Good Thing Bad Thing,” premiering below.

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