{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Dea Matrona on \u2018Hate That I Care,\u2019 Self-Producing and Creative Independence (#289)","description":"Belfast rock duo Dea Matrona join Mark Millar on the XS Noize Podcast to discuss their second album, Hate That I Care \u2014 a bold, more personal and self-assured new chapter for Mollie McGinn and Orl\u00e1ith Forsythe. Written, recorded and produced entirely by the band, Hate That I Care finds Dea Matrona leaning further into alt-rock while exploring vulnerability, identity, pressure, friendship, self-production and the feeling of not fitting neatly into other people\u2019s expectations. In this conversation, Mollie and Orl\u00e1ith look back on what they learned from their debut album, For Your Sins, how that record helped them understand who Dea Matrona were, and why Hate That I Care feels like the album where they are now telling people who they really are. They discuss the title track, which Mollie describes as being written to herself, the exhaustion of masking emotions, and how the album became a way of processing difficult feelings through songwriting. The conversation also explores \u201cMy Own Party\u201d and the powerful line \u201calways feeling like an outsider at my own party,\u201d the heavier emotional world of \u201cJohn Doe,\u201d the deeply personal story behind \u201cAisling,\u201d and the moment \u201cMagic Spell\u201d helped unlock the direction of the record. Mollie and Orl\u00e1ith also talk about producing the album themselves, writing and finishing music while on tour, their creative partnership, the early school-day rivalry that turned into a band, and how they continue to push each other as writers, musicians and producers. They also reflect on Dea Matrona\u2019s journey from busking in Belfast to playing Reading and Leeds, Electric Picnic and Rock Werchter, touring with The Beaches, and preparing to join Sting on tour across Europe. As Orl\u00e1ith says near the end of the conversation: \u201cFor Your Sins was introducing who we are, and Hate That I Care is telling you who we are.\u201d Listen to episode #289 of the XS Noize Podcast with Dea Matrona. ","author_name":"The XS Noize Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/www.xsnoize.com\/podcast","html":"