Lisa Molinaro (Modest Mouse, Talkdemonic) Releases New Single “The Ending Never Stops”

Lisa Molinaro is excited to share “The Ending Never Stops” the final pre-release single from her debut album Blind Trust out Friday, July 17 (pre-order). The track debuted at Glide Magazine and will be on all digital platforms this Friday. “The Ending Never Stops” explores the fear and inevitability of death, with Molinaro personifying it as both elusive and all-consuming, set against eerie textures and winding guitar lines. It follows singles “Peach Fuzz” and its accompanying music video and “We All Get Stuck” and its music video.

On the song, Lisa Molinaro reflects:

It’s completely natural to fear death. For me, if I begin to ponder passing on, I quickly reach this dark void of the mind. I’m on the edge of thought, and I can’t seem to take another step towards reason, or resolution. I hate it and yet I have no choice but to obey it. 

In “The Ending Never Stops,” I attempted to personify Death in order to become familiar. It’s an elusive sunken treasure, a valuable and heavy tender that vanishes right from the palm of your hand. It’s a toxin that seeps in and destroys, it masquerades as both servant and master at the helm, both attending to and controlling fate. And in the final verse, we know that like Charon who sells souls the passageway to eternity, nothing is ever free. Death is a never-ending end to things. 

And that is the paradox: that death does not have its own Reaper, so it alone is eternal. The endless wobbly arpeggiated guitar plucks along with digital winding, clicks and pops create a creeping vibe. Syncopated, pausing vocals and whispery falsetto add mystery. Staccato breathing and healthy yelling at the end was my way of getting catharsis in the studio. 

Well, what can we really do about Death? I wrote the chorus in such a way to create a balance. I brighten the music with synthy major chords and stronger vocals. Rise up out of the haze, get your head out of the maze and know that the gameboard has endless maneuvers toward success. Or just contentment. 

I don’t know if it was my intense fear of death that had held me back at times in life. I have dealt with a lot of it around me these last several years, and perhaps this song came from that period. I’m tired of being scared. This was my way of confronting my demise, and sitting with it for a time. I wrote “The Ending Never Stops” so I can put a mask on the ghostly notion and look at it eye to eye.

Lisa Molinaro spent years playing with some of indie rock’s most celebrated artists, recording with Modest Mouse, performing on viola with The National, and touring with The Decemberists as a violist and multi-instrumentalist. When the pandemic hit, Lisa Molinaro had an identity crisis: who was she when she wasn’t lending gravitas to others? She’d considered solo projects before, recording into her Tascam as a twenty-something; before, Lisa Molinaro cited external circumstances, but a collaboration with a dance company led her to work on her own project. Years later, we have her debut album.

Blending layered string arrangements, art rock ambition, and experimental pop textures, Blind Trust balances meticulous composition with emotional immediacy. Lisa Molinaro’s songs move fluidly between hushed harmonies, distorted guitars, and cinematic tension, shaped by years of collaboration across indie rock, film scoring, and performance art. Rooted in themes of grief, self-reflection, and transformation, her work feels both intimate and expansive – the sound of an artist finally claiming space for herself.

Mixed by Zach Bloomstein (Searows, Portugal. The Man) and mastered by Amy Dragon (Bartees Strange, Cleo Solo), Blind Trust integrates everything she’s learned through decades of touring and makes something no one else could make. Molinaro is the first to describe herself as a late bloomer; she named her home studio after that.  But she’s here now, and wherever Molinaro goes on Blind Trust, she goes wholly.