From Donnie Darko and Love Lies Bleeding to ultimate guilty pleasure The Neon Demon, we’re usually drawn deep into the screen whenever Jena Malone appears on it. The multi-disciplinary singer-songwriter, actress, photographer, and writer has been a pop-culture constant over the past 25 years, and as we await her appearance late next month in the Duffer Brothers’ Netflix show The Boroughs, Malone has now opened up her own personal soundtrack through Flowers for Men, a confessional album out May 8 via her record label There Was An Old Woman Records.
A new single and technicolor lyric video surfaced this past Friday (April 24) in “You’ve Been On My Mind,” and it’s a floating diaristic lullaby of synth and distortion, channeling a sound she calls “sci-folk.” It’s the third offering from the album, which swirls around themes of undoing the expectations and hierarchies around relationships.
“As soon as my son was born, I know I’d never love another human like I love him and started questioning the very traditional ideas of monogamy that had been ingrained in me,” she shares. “I began reading about polyamory and exploring different relationship styles, and some of the most honest songs I’ve ever written came from learning to navigate love from a new perspective.”
Get lost in it below.