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Abby Mott announces new album “Mutiny!” out August 2026

Abby Mott’s upcoming album “Mutiny” is the complete, soulful culmination of 12 years of musical exploration, and demonstrates Mott’s evolution as an artist. It reflects a decade of shifts in landscape, community, and culture. A collaboration with producer Duane Lundy of the Lexington Recording Company, "Mutiny" is vocally driven, with themes exploring seafaring adventures, isolation, sea monsters, motherhood, and the mysteries of outer space. The instrumentation showcases Mott's meticulous and genre-hopping arrangement style, with tracks ranging from stripped-down to riotously full with electronic drums, synths, live horns, mountains of vocal layers, and strings. Lundy and Mott create a richer, more daring sound to support a voice that is at once tender, gut-wrenching, and commanding.

She will perform the full album live in Richmond, VA with Rebecca Porter supporting, and in Baltimore, MD with supporting acts TBA this summer.

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Bio

Abby Mott creates cinematic worlds with her songs. She is a Richmond, VA based multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter who grew up on a steady diet of radio pop, indie rock, classic rock, and classical music. Mott studied the cello from a young age, later playing keyboards and guitar, and developing her unique vocal style. She cut her teeth in Baltimore’s strange and vibrant avant-indie-hardcore-funk scene in the early 2000s, and collaborated and performed with artists such as Michael Beresh and The Good Hand before launching her solo career. She’s opened for Nicole Atkins and performed as backing band for Daniel Johnston. She released "Hearts a' Flutter," a full length one-woman-band affair, to critical acclaim, followed by "Go West, Get East!," a four song EP with her backing band, “Her Band” (Jason Hughes, Pat Blades, and Jay Novak).

Mott has since followed her wanderlust all over the globe. Her experiences living in Manila, Philippines, Austin, Texas, and Nairobi, Kenya have given depth to her artistic expression.

  • “Trying to pick one favorite song is the worst thing about Mott's solo debut, Hearts a'Flutter, which she sung, wrote, and recorded all by her own bad self ... given that Mott has a stupid-gorgeous voice and effortless knack for the brain- burrowing hook, she could back herself with croaking frogs and flatulent goats and we'd probably still bop along.”

    –CityPaper, Baltimore

  • “Totally angelic indie-pop... Mott displays a growing songwriting sophistication and a divine sense of vocal control... with the sort of sensual abandon that would cause fans of Jenny Lewis, the Watson Twins, and Zooey Deschanel to eat their James Perse pants if Mott could get the same sort of exposure.”

    – Bret McCabe, The Baltimore Sun

  • “Hooks to level villages, and a voice to level mountains.”  

    “Critic’s Pick” Citypaper, Baltimore

  • “By layering a motley (pun intended) array of instruments, she’s able to create her own little world of sound.”

    Tony Sclafani, Music Monthly

  • Photo by Elizabeth Withers

  • Photo by Elizabeth Withers

  • Abby Mott

  • Photo by Elizabeth Withers