Maggot Heart: hangry as hell
PRESS/JOE DILWORTH
In late 2022, Maggot Heart singer/guitarist Linnéa Olsson underwent emergency surgery on her neck to decompress a nerve, a few weeks before the band were due to record their third album, Hunger. When she woke up, she couldn’t feel her fingers on her left hand, or even lift a glass of water.
“I was worried that was going to be permanent,” she says. “I was in hospital for 10 days and then began a recovery process that is still ongoing. I still have numbness in my hand and arm and shoulder where the nerve goes, but I have regained sensation in the fingers I use for playing and most of the strength.”