Track By Tracks: Shiny New Toyz - LORE (2026)

Each track on LORE moves through an ancient mythic pattern inspired by Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés — the Jungian storyteller who explored the “Wild Woman” archetype through traditional tales. Rather than retelling those myths, the songs step into their psychological terrain and translate them through modern, lived experience.

1. Illusion — The Bones Revealed:

“Illusion” merges our singer’s lived experience with the Skeleton Woman archetype. Once whole, life grinds the self down until only weathered flesh and bone remain. In Estés’ telling, Skeleton Woman is dragged from the depths and feared for what she reveals until someone dares to sit with her bones. Restoration comes not through rescue but through presence — and it is reciprocal. When she is met without flinching, breath returns breath. Illusion collapses, and what remains is raw truth.

2. Sign of the Time — The Skin Stolen:

“Sign of the Time” moves through the Seal Woman / Kokoponan myth — a woman imprisoned on land when her sealskin is stolen and her wild nature taken from her. In this telling, the loss is violent — identity seized and instinct suppressed by the demands of others. There is no soft awakening here. Only confrontation. Armor on. Eyes open. No one is coming to save you. If you want your skin back, you must reclaim it yourself.

3. Arrow — The Voice Returned:

“Arrow” channels Bear Woman and La Loba — rage distilled into clarity and voice used as resurrection. Born from a moment of moving through personal fury, the song transforms that rage through a yogic lens into intention: the arrow aimed at the skull as a strike toward awakening and perception. Beneath it all lies the weight of generations — contempt buried, monsters built from what was never faced. But like La Loba, we gather the bones and sing. Rage becomes illumination. The arrow flies not in chaos, but in truth.

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