Carnival Kid's harder edges on "We Used To Shout At You"

AP Track Review

Carnival Kid's latest track We Used To Shout At You is a soaring anguished rocker with lead guitar lines that mirror Christian Stezycki's vocal barbs. It shows Carnival Kid's harder edges and is about cities harder edges encroaching inward until they implode. Of the track, Stezycki offers:

"We used to shout at you" is a song about the lack of perspective in my hometown. It's a nervous song full of anger and desperation based on the feeling of seeing your hometown slowly die. And while my family was trying their best to make me stay or at least come back, everything else around almost violently seemed to push me away. There were no jobs, no shops, no perspective for my children and only radical or old people. And while everyone is singing about the clubs in Berlin, this is basically happening everywhere else around.

Carnival Kid is the solo project of Jovernanté singer Christian Stezycki and is based out of Erfurt, Germany

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Robb Donker






THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:

FROM THE ARTIST:

The 11th of November, eleven minutes past 11 o’clock in the morning, sees the beginning of carnival season in Germany. Many people, including myself, don’t really care about this. But the 11th of November 2009, at 9 past 11 A.M., my son saw the light of day. Children born on this day are called “Faschingskinder” in Germany - carnival kids. And since this event changed basically every aspect of my life, including my perception, writing and interpretation of music, I felt it to be a pretty perfect name for a solo project. Carnival also includes the idea of hiding behind a mask, which I am kind of doing in a linguistic sense when I am writing and singing in English (or when I’m writing this pseudo-international text). The kid-part of the name might give a hint to all the struggles you go through in your thirties, but I guess I better leave that to interpretation. And if this description made you laugh your ass off since it’s so cheesy, then that’s also some kind of carnival I suppose...

This year (2019) I released my first 6 track EP “All The Easy Places”, which deals with the struggle to come to terms with my role as a working adult/father/responsible person/husband while still being an artist.