Marci has announcement her new album, Mask Lady and Late Night Girl, will drop on August 28th via Arbutus Records, along with the news, the project of Marta Cikojevic has shared lead single, “Butterfly Sticker.” A longtime member of the Montreal group TOPS, Marci established Cikojevic as a solo artist with an intuitive understanding of pop music and an emotional catharsis on and off the dancefloor.

Since recording Marci, Cikojevic moved from Montreal to Los Angeles and the album title is inspired by an only-in-LA interaction Cikojevic had with an impeccably dressed woman she would see walking around her Hollywood neighborhood, always in a mask that covered her entire face. One evening, on the way home from a night out, Cikojevic mustered up the courage to speak to the mysterious woman. “Omg you’re Mask Lady! You’re so iconic, I think you’re amazing,” Cikojevic remembers saying. “And she replied, ‘Oh hey, you’re ‘Late Night Girl,’ because she would see me at night outside having a cigarette or coming home from a party.”

For Mask Lady and Late Night Girl, Cikojevic once again collaborated with TOPS bandmate David Carriere to elevate the sound she so confidently established on Marci. A defining aspect of a Marci song is the ability to instantly conjure up past hits while remaining fresh, a tribute to Cikojevic and Carriere’s deep knowledge of pop music and playful approach to song construction.

For Mask Lady and Late Night Girl, Cikojevic wanted to try “things we didn’t get to do on [Marci] with singing styles or production, and songwriting that had more rock and roll and glam influences.” So, along with the array of vintage synths that gave Marci a warmly futuristic aesthetic, Mask Lady boasts a broader instrumental palette and elements drawn from both the Y2k-era messy pop girlies like Uffie and Kesha and Cikojevic’s love of 80s power balladeers like White Snake and Def Leppard.

For Cikojevic, the heart of Mask Lady and Late Night Girl is the idea that we all have a masked woman and late night girl inside—sometimes we live as if the sun will never rise, sometimes we hide our true face from the world. The true self is somewhere between the two. “It’s anybody and nobody,” she says. “It’s you”.

Marci
Mask Lady and Late Night Girl
Tracklist
Arbutus Records

1. Stars Are Fake
2. Chaotic Princess
3. 99 Dimensional
4. Edge of the Knife
5. Slow Moves
6. Butterfly Sticker
7. Pay Me Now
8. Lady with the Mask
9. Hot Sexy USA
10. Liquid Heartbeat
11. Cherry Sunday
12. Ooh I Know

Pre-order Mask Lady and Late Night Girl HERE