Flower Face

Few album themes are as universal as heartbreak, but Montreal goth-folk singer/songwriter Flower Face (Ruby McKinnon) has reinvented the form on her utterly raw, beautifully bittersweet new project, Girl Prometheus. Even better, heartbreak has propelled Ruby into a new, prolific phase of creativity; Girl Prometheus is only the beginning.

Following 2022’s critically acclaimed The Shark In Your Water, Girl Prometheus showcases 11 new tracks that each, in their own way, celebrate Ruby’s survival and revival. Whispered, acoustic moments intertwine with cinematic, room-filling compositions to form an album that is as intensely personal as it is relatable.

Produced by Marcus Paquin at Studio PM in Montreal and partially recorded offsite at a secluded lake house, Girl Prometheus as a title started out as a joke after Ruby and some friends went to the movies to see Oppenheimer. “There’s a quote at the beginning: ‘Prometheus stole fire from the Gods and gave it to man; for this he was chained to a rock and tortured for eternity,’” Ruby says. “My friends would say, ‘You’re like Prometheus if he was a girl, because you’re being chained to a rock and tortured for eternity by your love. You stole love from the gods, you brought it to a man, and now you’re being tortured eternally.’”

Girl Prometheus might be suffused with pain, as its author fought to process an unexpected life shift, but it emerges victorious. Flower Face has grown new roots, and they are stronger than ever.