mehro Drops Scintillating New Project, ‘weirdthrob’

Sep 15

Singer-songwriter, mehro just released their new album Weirdthrob shortly after the start of their 2025 tour promoting the project. After making their debut in 2020 with the single “Perfume,” mehro has released three full length albums, the most recent of which, Trauma Lullabies, coming just a year before the release of Weirdthrob. In an interview with Noisescape Magazine, mehro compared writing an album to planting a garden and picking its fruit as it grows. It should then come as no surprise that, more than anything, Weirdthrob is a collection of songs that only tangentially relate to each other in the sense that all of them feel like they come from the same place. This makes for a very unique listening experience, with each song surprising you at first listen, largely due to how dissimilar it sounds from the song you just heard before.

mehro released four singles in anticipation of Weirdthrob’s release: “Lifesaver,” “You’re So Pretty,” “Lady Parts and Mannequins,” and “Sepia Tones.”

Lifesaver is the first song on the tracklist and a perfect introduction to the tone of the album. It’s a song that is both sonically messy and incredibly cohesive. The sudden shift between the whispered lyrics and the ones being screamed into the microphone is jarring at first listen, but once you really start to listen to what is being sung, the contrast immediately registers as being purposeful. mehro has stated that Radiohead is one of their biggest influences and it’s most notable in this song.

“You’re So Pretty” is another song that is fairly jarring at first listen, but once it clicks, it’s hard not to love it. This is clearly the case for fans as it’s the song on the album with the most Spotify streams so far. The lyrics in the verses are poetic and esoteric while the chorus immediately hits you with very blunt and repetitive lines. In terms of production, it’s one of the most interesting on the album.

“Lady Parts and Mannequins" is one of the highlights on the album if only for its immediate departure from any consistent themes or sounds the other songs had. It is the most fun song to listen to and of all the singles, it makes the most sense to release as a single for that reason. Just from hearing the opening line “sometimes I wish I was a sex doll,” the listener knows they’re in for something special and the song never disappoints, giving listeners their fill of interesting lyrics.

The last single to be released and the last song on the album, “Sepia Tones,” is by far the best song on Weirdthrob. mehro described writing the song as being a necromantic experience and the listener will immediately understand why they felt that way. The song has arguably the most simple melody on the album, but that adds to its charm and helps to highlight the beautiful singing and lyrics. One of mehro’s strengths as an artist is their use of metaphor and descriptive language to accentuate the feelings they’re trying to convey in their songs. The first lines of the song are “I bruise easily, purple and green” which give the listener a hint that the “Sepia Tones” they want to leave them alone are actually bruises in their latest stage of healing. Along with other lyrics like “I thrive on my low self-esteem” and “I find in my life that I'm looking for somеthing to break,” the metaphor could represent them wanting to constantly be in pain with fresh purple bruises rather than in a place of healing with sepia toned bruises.

The album is filled with songs depicting troubled relationships marred by uncertainty. “Sewers" and “Plastic Tires” are the most emblematic of mehro’s ability to paint a picture in the listener’s mind that helps them better understand the song’s messaging. In “Sewers,” the lyric “trapped in the sewers of my mind” evokes the image of mehro walking through a literal sewer in near total darkness, wading through dirty water that only works to slow him down. As they’re thinking of the person the song is about, they’re going through hazy memories that only work to slow them down with no direction as to how they should feel about that person now that the relationship is on the rocks. “Plastic Tires” describes a relationship as being “like driving a 'Rari with plastic tires.” The listener doesn’t even need to know what a Ferrari looks like to know that a car with plastic tires wouldn’t be able to move at all, as the weight of it would crush the tires almost immediately. This relationship the listener is being told about is one that is so dysfunctional, it can never take off in the first place.

Weirdthrob is a showcase of mehro’s best qualities as a musician and his growth as an artist. There are many musicians who have a similar philosophy of writing an album without having a clear direction, but very few pull it off as well as mehro does in Weirdthrob. Listening to the album, it’s not difficult to see why so many people see them as an artist to look out for.