Mackenzie Day is a young and talented Indie Rock musician, drawing inspiration from a wide spectrum of musical styles. After finding myself hooked on her music, I had the pleasure of interviewing her to discuss her new EP, Addict in My Attic, and to learn more about her journey and musical background.
Reuel
Hello Mackenzie! I am happy to chat with you. How are you doing?
Mackenzie Day
Hi!! So happy to be here, I’m doing really good! Hope you are too!
Reuel
I’m great! You will release your new EP “Addict in My Attic” later this month. What would you tell your fans to expect to hear on this record?
Mackenzie Day
Expect to hear the unexpected yet it feels like the closest to myself that I’ve gotten to myself through music and my sound, that is on-going evolving. def pushed the boundary of self and music through creating this and be expected to get more rock and roll.
Reuel
How would you describe your music to someone who hasn’t heard it before?
Mackenzie Day
A poetic expression of female angst; bringing a new sound combining genres, rock indie, r&b and pop influences. Lyrics that will cause awakening and awareness to the human experience and the power within our universal experience. Bringing forefront confrontation of emotions and feelings and exposing my truth loud and bold.
Reuel
That’s a wonderful description! Is there a song in particular on ‘Addict in My Attic’ that you are excited to see how people will react to?
Mackenzie Day
Has to be the interlude that I produced myself. Track number 4, it’s created with voice memos and my voice. It’s a mixture of improvisations I was doing on the guitar and me talking to my voice memos about the experience with this person and what I would say to them if I had the opportunity to do so.
Reuel
Everyone perceives music differently, but what feeling or message do you hope fans will take away after listening to ‘Addict in My Attic’?
Mackenzie Day
The power of vulnerability and expression. Putting yourself out there to be a raw evolution of self and time and change throughout that. To the obsession part of the self that roots and dwells on people and experiences, turn them to art, let them explode into thin air of creativity and allow your unique perspective to be the guide to create pain into beauty. To look within the parts of you that have been triggered and not let them take you over, just release them and create art through them.
Reuel
The process of creating a new album involves many stages, from writing and recording to marketing. What was your favourite part of making ‘Addict in My Attic,’ and what was the most challenging aspect?
Mackenzie Day
This project actually came to be because all the first songs I had finished / knew I wanted on the album were all about the same person/ experience in some way so this EP was a way for me to release that experience in a way that felt like it was being called to be its own music project. The goal was a huge album but I realized that is taking more time as they tend to do and wanted to release a project that felt like it would come out before 2025/2026.. I think one of the favorite parts of the process was even realizing and getting the idea of the title “Addict in my Attic” the idea just popping in my head – I love concepts and post releasing my album “girl with no curtains”, when I realized I had a line in “black hole” – “another kind of addict, being addicted to bothering me” Addict in My Attic just came to me and it felt like a nice epiphany of the project I needed to create.
Reuel
If you could collaborate with any artist, dead or alive, who would it be and why?
Mackenzie Day
Amy Winehouse; she was so raw and this is how it is and how I’ll say it. I feel that heavy in my experience and just writing it out as you purely feel and experience without filter. I listened to her a lot in high school, those huge years of really growing up and evolving through the unknown of self or life.
Reuel
How do you feel about the representation of women in heavy music today, and what do you think can be done to promote more inclusivity and support for female musicians?
Mackenzie Day
I think women are taking over, I think it’s time women continue to be loud and raw and real and in your face about it. I think women have a lot of things to say sing and scream and it’s only the beginning of a more confident sexy electric wave of powerful women musicians emerging through the industry.
Reuel
Thank you for your time, Mackenzie, and for this interview! Is there anything else you’d like to conclude this interview with?
Mackenzie Day
Just gratitude for the opportunity to be interviewed, for those who read this and listen to my music and support my visions, artistically, and in general of life and kindness. Thank you always.
