Review Fix Exclusive: Molly Grue’s Krista Acheson Talks ‘Anyway’ And More

Review Fix chats with Molly Grue’s Krista Acheson, who discusses the band’s new single, “Anyway,” as well as creative process and goals for the future.

Review Fix: How did the project start?

Krista Acheson: It started as a means to better compartmentalize my songwriting. The 

songs I write tend to switch genre with my moods so, basically, I wanted a side project in order to release the soft rock songs I had written.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Acheson: Completely random, honestly. Melody and words will pop into my head out of nowhere. I rarely ever sit down and just decide to contrive or write a song;  if something starts looping in my head, I decide it might be worth recording. It’s mainly a subconscious process with me. The song just eventually bubbles to the surface and repeats, over and over,  driving me half crazy until I finally decide to go through the process of recording the track. It’s a relief though. I think it would be far more practical (and cheaper) to just have a good cry opposed to releasing music- but it’s a creative form of closure; and once it’s out, it’s out.

Review Fix: What’s your standout song? How was it written?

Acheson: The Molly Grue project is pretty new; ‘Anyway’ is the only track available from it and it’s not even been pushed anywhere, yet. I’m pretty much at zero with this project.

But, ‘Land Mine’, the first single from my Krista D project, did pretty well. It received over 719,000 streams in a month at one point. I guess that’s my only standout song to date. The EP with that track is called  ‘Look and me… I’m Krista D’.

Review Fix: What are your goals for the remainder of 2018?

Acheson: I’m hoping to finish up the Molly Grue EP; I’m way behind schedule and then get back to working on the stop-motion video for ‘Anyway’. I’ll be more focused on music once I’ve wrapped up some sculptures I’m working on; I’m mainly a visual artist.

Review Fix: How do you want your music to affect people?

Acheson: Mostly I want people to know that it’s coming from an honest place. And, like any person creating in such a subjective medium, I hope that I can find a supportive group of people who can relate to the lyrics.

I think the goal of most of my more personal tracks is that not only do I want to get it out of me, but I hope that the manner it’s been brought across resonates with listeners and lets them know that they’re not alone; if they happen to have had a similar experience to mine. I guess I’m hoping that I’ve expressed myself in such a way that people can hear their own story.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Acheson: Well, in regards to music, aside from finishing up the EP, and the video, I also have to wrap up the EP for another music project I’ve been working on called ‘Hooha and the Peter Guns’.

For visual art, where I also happen to work under 3 aliases, I need to finish up some sculptures and paintings for my ‘Sugar and Spite’ series  (M.N.V), which is a body of work based on the emotional aftermath of the assault.

It’s an important series of work for me, so I don’t want to rush it, but  I’m hoping to find a gallery willing to exhibit it next year. Where my music and visual art often revolves around the same themes, it would be great to have it all completed and released around the same time.

We’ll see if I can manage it all.