‘You Can’t Pray to Me and Keep Your Guns’

photo by Erin Brochu

Leckey's lyrics are soaked in Catholic tradition. When writing songs on Hell Gate, Leckey asked herself: What if I just full-send it with the Catholic terminology and imagery and tradition, and just do my own thing with it? I think of it as a reclamation and a repurposing.”

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