The idea behind my album was to make it eclectic. I used the idea of having two personas’, one called Sugar and one called Spice (like an alter ego) to identify their emotions through songs. Hopefully, you are able to tell the difference between the two personas’. 

My influences throughout this album include Porcelain Black, Icon for Hire, Echosmith and Halestorm. They are all rock/ rock pop/ industrial pop based genres. Porcelain Black being the main influence for my album has the exact personality, voice and instrumentation that I want to show with my album. I tried to create and edgy rock image through my songs to create an industrial pop sound. 

I also tried to have a 'supernatural' effect throughout my album. I tried to emphasize this by using a variety of synths and I thought that the use of distorted guitar would also create an eerie image to the album. I had this idea when writing ‘Midnight Sun’ and ‘Cardiac Arrest’. However, I couldn’t complete the final vision I had in my head of these songs, I would like to have a lot more production on them and make some more use of backing vocals and harmonies to create more of a fuller, ballad like kind of song. Over all I wanted the illusion of a ‘super hero/ world saver’ in Midnight Sun and as for ‘Cardiac Arrest’ I just wanted to experiment and have a life support machine sample. 

I had a lot of help from Mark Edwards on the majority of my songs as I found it very difficult in creating the ‘right sound’ I wanted for guitar and bass. He had his own creative input as well as helping create the vision I wanted for each of the songs. I would sing or play the riff/ melody I wanted on piano and he would do his best to create a bass or guitar part close enough to how I imagined it to be. 
However, the songs ‘Can’t Save Us’ and ‘Medusa’ were written entirely by myself, but they were originally midi instruments, so I asked Mark to replace them with actual instruments to create a bigger and more realistic sound. 


04. CAN'T SAVE US - Nataliee Sheppard

05. MEDUSA - Nataliee Sheppard

06. REVOLUTIONARY - Nataliee