Washington DC-based indie soul band Oh He Dead have shared their latest single, “Artemis,” available now via their own Wally Baba Records. “Artemis” heralds Oh He Dead’s eagerly anticipated third studio album, Ugly, due everywhere on Friday, August 23.
“My favorite song on the Ugly album is ‘Artemis,’ of course,” says Oh He Dead frontwoman CJ Johnson. “I heard the instrumental and immediately had this full body rush of like how much I love the moon, and how I feel about the moon. It was instantaneous – this is my love song to the moon. It is almost like a prayer. And yeah….I feel like I have a relationship with the moon, honestly, a lot of people I know feel like that. We all just have to take the time to stop and appreciate it from time to time, and I hope that this song helps people do that. I found out recently that my name is a nickname for Artemis, and Artemis is the Greek goddess of the moon. So that’s how I came up with the title.”