Leading up to the official release of The Dusk on every online platform on March 31st, MNR will be featuring a new track single from the album each week through the band’s Bare Bones Records label.
The Diem Series by MNR is an eight record artistic mural; once all laid together, follows concepts reflecting the darkest and brightest emotions of the human compass. . The Dusk was recorded at The Tragically Hip owned Bathouse Recording Studio in Bath, Ontario, Canada with illustrious engineer Nyles Spencer (The Headstones, Broken Social Scene, Sam Roberts Band).
‘river‘ is the new single of italian singer-songwriter Emit, lyrics in english with crystal clear electric guitars floating on a lo-fi beat as if they were carried by the stream, in the same way the feelings of a relationship depart from us becoming memories.
The river image, proceeding slow and unstoppable yet placid and calm, conveys a peculiar mood, a sort of serene nostalgia. The lyrics tell us about the concern one feels in a relationship in the moment of distance and the inability to control the emotions involved (‘How can I control the power of this river?‘), but at the same time they manifest the desire for those feelings not to end (‘I never wanna learn this love‘).
The song is born at university, during a semester abroad in Rotterdam, where Emit finds at a concert exactly the sound he was looking for. He asks who was playing the beats and so he meets Noel Gregory van Drunen from the band Dichter Bob. After a few days they meet each other to cook something, Noel samples a beat from a keyboard from the ‘80s and filters it through a tape machine. On that beat Emit composes and records guitar and voice.
This latest version was re-made last autumn using that same original beat. Synth and bass were added to sustain the chords of three guitars playing the same part, with different shades and leaks, intertwining as tributaries of a river.
The single anticipates ‘vivo (deluxe)‘ releasing on March 24th 2023, an updated and extended version of the debut album published on December 9th 2022. A peculiar effort for sure, by which the singer-songwriter chooses to widen the previous work with six songs that add new colors to the world of ‘vivo‘.
type advantage are hailing from New Jersey area and this is their EP. This one contains five songs of beautiful melodic pop punk, as the band says on their Bandcamp page, queer pop punk with lots of melody, emotions and some riot grrrl in some song structures like for example in ‘GTFO’. There are sweet, sweet, almost dreamy melodies like for example in ‘find me’, with superb interplay of two vocals, Jessica and Sean throughout the whole record. The lyrics deal with some personal themes, like finding yourself and enjoy living what you are, sexism and patriarchat, loving someone and strongly feeling it, relationships and daydreaming. All of the lyrics are written so smart and it was a pleasure to combine them reading when listening to this record. All of the EP is like made for day dreaming and all those sweet melodies stay with you long after you stopped listening to the record.
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