Sydney alt-pop artist Rageflower has officially released her debut EP, entitled Infinite Highs, End Of Times. The seven-track effort was co-written and recorded with producers Nico Scali and Ben ‘Jnr.’ Siva, and arrives three years into the project’s existence after being created by singer, songwriter and figurehead Madeleine Powers. For her part, she has described the EP centrally focusing on “the transformative quality of suffering”. “As someone who needs to write to process my own experiences, the individual songs are journal entries from my highs and lows,” she said.
“I draw most of my inspiration from personal experience, but anything that makes me feel something deeply can inspire a song.” To celebrate the release of the EP, Powers has gone into detail about each of its songs exclusively for Music Feeds. Read that, and stream the EP, below.
Rageflower – Infinite Highs, End Of Times
1. ‘Angel Things’
This song was the first song I wrote for the EP. For me, it’s about platonic love and how shared painful experiences can bond people together. I refer to a lot of my friends and fans as “angel’, and I think that, in this case, “angel things” are the delicate traumas we store with our inner child; they’re the things that make us sensitive to the world.
2. ‘Hands On’
This song is really just about lusting after someone you can’t have. It’s animalistic and desperate, but in a good way. I love the production of this song; it feels hot and heaving, but still sensitive in the ways that I always am. The music video for this song was so fun to create. We had basically no budget, so I called up all my girlfriends and we filmed this crazy bikini carwash in my friend’s dad’s warehouse. It was so silly, and the first time I really thought, “Yeah, I’m gonna rock the suit.”
3. ‘Hot Glue’
This song is a fan favourite, and it’s one of mine too. It’s really just about daydreaming in your room and feeling lost. It’s that teenage crush that you aren’t going to do anything about. It’s that glue-gun costume. It’s listening to the same song over and over and over again. ‘Hot Glue’ is the bed-rot anthem. The music video for this was lots of fun, too; I wanted to get the same girls from the ‘Hands On’ music videos and put them in the suits this time, and just have a deranged sleepover party.
4. ‘Kerosene’
This is one of my favourite songs I’ve ever written, and there’s some lore to it. I had a friendship with a musician who lived in a different state to me, and we became super close. Long story short, they broke my heart and I had a bit of a mental breakdown over it. It was a serious turning point for me in my decision to pursue music seriously, and I really think there was some alchemy happening when I wrote this song. Big fuck-you vibes. Big “just you wait” energy. The music video was one of the coolest things I’ve ever been involved in. I came to Zoe Dubuc with this idea to do a spaghetti western/Kill Bill music video, and she took it to the next level. It’s something I’m incredibly proud of.
5. ‘Everyone’s Girl’
This track is really close to my heart. It’s really just about letting go of the need to be “for everyone”, and grieving the person you thought you had to be in order to be loved. I think it’s a really beautiful song, and jnr. added the most beautiful touches with his verse. It was really important to me to have jnr. featured in a song on the EP. He was such an enormous part of this whole EP coming together, and he is both one of my closest friends and my biggest supporters.
6. ‘Sign Of Life’
I wrote ‘Sign of Life’ about feeling isolated. It was a time in my life where I felt totally alone and hopeless. The song came together in some freaky ways; there were a lot of really weird synchronicities in the studio. Nico and I got pretty meta with it, and added all these secret messages throughout the song. I’d love to see if any fans can decode them. This song really carries the message of the whole EP, and that is this: Through your pain, you will find a path to joy.
7. ‘Desk Job’
This is probably my favourite song on the entire EP. I wrote this song at my desk, funnily enough, at my day job. It is about feeling like the world is ending and still having to go to work. I was sitting at my little desk in front of my spreadsheets, and I just picked up my phone and created a voice note with this idea. When I came home, I figured out the chords and sent it to Nico, who loved it, and we got to work. I think this song really captures the rage I feel having to work a day job as an independent artist. Especially the way it ends.
Rageflower will play Buddy’s Bar in Sydney tonight (Thursday, August 21st), before heading to Bigsound in early September 2025. Her showcase dates for Bigsound can be found here.
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