Liela Moss

Following on from brooding single ‘Reward’, Liela Moss is delighted to announce the release of her fourth studio album, Transparent Eyeball. To celebrate the release, Liela will unveil her spellbinding new track, Conditional Love.

Notable for fronting The Duke Spirit, Liela has established herself as an influential artist through her solo work and collaborations. Liela’s hypnotic, often intense, style of music has been lauded by tastemakers and music lovers around the world with the likes of SPIN, NME, Clash Magazine, Uncut, MOJO, Record Collector, 6 Music and Radio X supporting her work.

With 2008s ´My Name is Safe In Your Mouth’, 2020s´Who The Power´and 2023s ´Internal Working Model’ under her belt, as well as five albums with The Duke Spirit, Transparent Eyeball marks a new era for Liela as she advances into a more daring sonic direction. Working with production duo IYEARA (Mark Lanegan, Humanist), Liela has created a dramatic, menacing sound characterised firstly by the ominous ‘Reward’ and, now, the atmospheric Conditional Love. Spacey, glitchy and breathtakingly stylish, Conditional Love’s slick production combined with Liela’s powerful vocal, provide a glimpse of what can be expected on the record.

Reflecting on the making of the album, Liela explained, “This album was the most spontaneous process I’ve been through in twenty years of recording songs, and it made me understand what it is to feel detachment from a creative ‘thing’, whilst still loving it, still cooing after each little bud as it grows.

I had one conversation with IYEARA which went something like ‘if I can do something that feels right on these two tracks, can we make the whole lot into an album and I sing on them because I cant wait around to make my own record when this one sounds so atmospheric and those beats are so sick!’.

Whilst fighting to be as spontaneous as I could be, I’ve spewed forth lines and words which arose out of the atmosphere of the music, but unite under the theme of my general obsessions: How can we humans resolve conflict when we are so possessed with power struggle; can we show love more effectively; and how better can we detect the fears within us that inspire the harm we do to one another? I was thinking how deeply intolerances in human relationships cause greater harm than the fear which inspires these boundaries in the first place.”

The release of Transparent Eyeball will be supported by a UK tour in October. You can catch Liela live on the following dates:

Oct 15th - Bristol Cube Cinema

Oct 16th – London Hoxton Hall

 Oct 18th - Brighton Alphabet

Oct 19th - Manchester Band on the Wall

Single Conditional Love is out on 18th June and is taken from album Transparent Eyeball, due for release on 11th October on Liela's own Mother Figure Records label.