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. Forever appeared in 2020, and Johnston brought guest players from DIIV and Have A Nice Day for 2021's Luminol. In 2023 she and Vyva Melinkolya released their collaborative album Orbweaving ,which combines the best parts of Midwife’s Heaven Metal and Vyva Melinkolya’s sentimental, classic shoegaze in a way that distinctively elevates both artists.
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