Track By Tracks: RAGEFLOWER - TWINSTAR (2026)
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This song, as well as the rest of the EP, is written from the perspective of my alter ego, my inner male narcissist. CONTROL is about an ego trip and the realisation that you might be getting too big for your boots as the illusion of control begins to crumble around you. As a woman in music, I came up with the idea of playing the character a male rockstar for this next chapter. I wanted to play with my ego and gender musically and visually, as well as test the boundaries of what is acceptable for women in music today. We tracked a lot of this song while on tour with The Darkness, and I think that hair-metal energy really influenced the way we approached the guitars on this song.
2. PUSH PIN:
RAGEFLOWER returns with PUSH PIN, the second single from her upcoming EP TWINSTAR. Exploring obsessive desire and emotional fixation, the track dives into her darker instincts. The release is paired with a surreal, David Lynch-inspired music video with a Rocky Horror edge. "I wrote this song during a period of fascination with true crime, in particular stalkers, and what might lead people to become so obsessed with another person that they are consumed by it. I wanted to channel dark obsession and desire, the unacceptable and twisted parts of the human psyche. That also informed the sound of the music; we wanted to create something contradictory that felt punk but sounded alt-country.
3. I DON’T BELIEVE IN LOVE:
Releasing with the announcement of the first-ever RAGEFLOWER Aus Tour and sophomore EP in August. “I DON'T BELIEVE IN LOVE is a crisis of faith song. It's the inner dialogue of someone going through heartbreak, and trying to make sense of moving forward in life. I think this is a song for anyone moving through a transition period in their life, and the breakdown of belief systems. "It'll come back around" is the meaningful echo throughout the song, and the real-life lesson I learned in writing it.
4. SLIDING DOORS:
SLIDING DOORS is a song about crossroads. It’s a song I wrote contemplating the person I might’ve been if I had made different decisions, chosen different paths. I left my very stable job to pursue music last year, and I wrote this song thinking about the person I might’ve become if I’d stayed. I imagine that if I had ignored my desires to pursue music, there would have been a great deal of longing for another life, and a restlessness that I’ve tried to inject into this song. “You look just like her” is repeated at the end of the song as this call across timelines to the person I might’ve been, a reminder that there is no difference between us except the choices we made. The EP is really about the multitudes we contain, and it’s amazing to think there are people out there working desk jobs who contain an inner twin rockstar.
EP:
Conceptually, this EP is an exploration of duality and the shadow-self, and has become a bit of a psychological map for me. I have always felt that we each contain the capacity for immense good and deplorable evil, and in this world of extremism and camp-ism, I wanted to make something that outlined the many shades within us as human beings. I have always tried to define myself and fit myself into a box so that I could evaluate whether I was “good” or “bad” and what that meant about how lovable I was. I think it’s a very human trait to define and categorise, and a common insecurity especially with young people: “am I good enough?” I struggled with this moral perfectionism for a long time, and as much as I tried to tell myself “yes I am good”, I always found within me a nagging contradiction. I have the capacity for evil, and I think we all do. I have found that radical acceptance of this duality is peace-making, knowing that I am flawed but that I choose to be kind. Acceptance of our capacity for evil makes it easier to admit when we are wrong, to make amends, and to accept that we are not defined by our mistakes or by choices made from our ego. My “TWINSTAR” is the darkness within me that I’ve come to accept.
Sonically, RAGEFLOWER has always been about extremes, and this EP was no exception. My band and I put so much energy into making these songs, many of them recorded on the road touring with The Darkness. Nico Scali (Nicodemo) led the helm of production on this EP with close collaboration with Max Jacobs (my MD and guitarist) and Jnr. This was also the first project I’ve given myself a producer credit for, and I feel really proud of the sound we’ve achieved. For me, guitar is the most important part of building the production in my songs, and so Max had a lot of fun. We used a combination of old vintage amps, plug-ins, and 80’s outboard gear to find each guitar tone. I write in many different guitar tunings, so it’s always interesting to layer different tunings on different guitars within a song. We really tried to listen to what each individual track needed. We recorded live drums across the whole EP, but there is still plenty of sample magic across the record; we really love the contrast between modern technology and old stuff, we find really inspiring.
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