When 2020 began, Madeline Johnston had several national and international tours planned, but the pandemic shifted her focus back to recording, and back to her internal landscape. Midwife’s third full length record, Luminol, was written and produced during quarantine. Luminol is a chemical used by forensic investigators to reveal trace amounts of blood left at a crime scene. When it reacts with blood, luminol emits a chemiluminescent blue glow that can be seen in a darkened room. In the same way this chemical reveals evidence at a scene, Midwife is interested in profound truth - tur… read more
When 2020 began, Madeline Johnston had several national and international tours planned, but the pandemic shifted her focus back to recording, and ba… read more
When 2020 began, Madeline Johnston had several national and international tours planned, but the pandemic shifted her focus back to recording, and back to her internal landscape. Midwife…read more
Midwife is the moniker of multi-instrumentalist Madeline Johnston, who also records as Sister Grotto. She lives and works in San Miguel, New Mexico by way of Denver, Colorado, where she spent the better half of the past decade developing her experimental pop project. As a self-taught guitarist and recording engineer, Midwife explores dark subject matter in her anthemic, soft-gaze hits. Self-described as “heaven metal,” or emotive music about devastation - catharsis. The first Midwife release was the 2017 album Like Author, Like Daughter, followed by the Prayer Hands EP in 2018. For…read more
Midwife is the moniker of multi-instrumentalist Madeline Johnston, who also records as Sister Grotto. She lives and works in San Miguel, New Mexico by way of Denver, Colorado, where she spe… read more
Midwife is the moniker of multi-instrumentalist Madeline Johnston, who also records as Sister Grotto. She lives and works in San Miguel, New Mexico by way of Denver, Colorado, where she spent the better half of the past decade developi… read more