Posts Tagged ‘Cairns’
Firstly, let’s set something straight. There’s a degree of misrepresentation in the new track from The Starry Field. Mark Myers, formerly of The Middle East who I’m more than slighty partial to, is the brain, voice, hands and mixing desk behind The Starry Field and he used to look like this. Now he looks like this. So when when he sings ‘Just because I haven’t shaved for weeks, doesn’t mean I’m lazy’, I call shenanigans of the most outrageous order. It looks to me, Mr Myers, that you’d well and truly stayed atop your shaving game. There is one part of this track that rings quite true for me though- ‘I’m trying to be the most awe-inspiring guy that I can be’. The dude can write the hell out of a song, perform said song exceptionally then mix and master it perfectly. I say perfectly as if there’s an objectively correct way that mixing can be undergone and I tell you this: there is, and you’re hearing it.
This new single is the first we’ve heard from The forthcoming record from The Starry Field which is due out in March / April this year. It’s got an unreasonably catchy pop-hook though I have a sneaking suspicion that the rest of the record won’t follow along similar lines. I can see this smoking radio over the next month, maintaining a stranglehold over neural real-estate before the rest of the record drops and reassures punters that The Starry Field has a repertoire boasting not just catchiness but also poignancy.
Sometimes I wonder how these posts will read in retrospect and this is one that I write with the expectation that 2013 will be kind to The Starry Field. To the future you and I who are reading this with the gift of hindsight, I called it, right?
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