"I've been to Paris, I've been to Berlin, to San Francisco been California dreaming..."
When you listen to "King of Worthing", the last track from Mild Card's newly released album "Mild Abandon", you realize easily that a lot of the allure here is the Worthing, (East Beach) Sussex UK based artist's vocal aesthetic and in equal measure the attitude that drips from his lips as he soliloquizes. I love the sound of his voice that feels artfully between cool / aloof and disenchanted beyond belief. Either way, his outlook and acerbic poetry is engaging and dreadfully rock and roll. While Mild Card is a one man band, he doesn't sound like it, there is a live feel here as if all of his sides are playing while facing each other. You feel a roots rock, post punk boogie woogie glamcentric tone here. Something between Psychedelic Furs, early Stones, The Cult and T-Rex or an amalgam of similar such artists and that suits me fine.
Of the song the artist shares:
"I never thought I'd end up living two roads over from the house I grew up in, but that's what's happened. I struggled a lot with the idea that I'd failed in life somehow and should have adventured further afield. The song is basically about coming to terms with this and growing to embrace and love where I'm from. I still have mixed feelings but I feel like I've made my peace with it."
"I never thought I'd end up living two roads over from the house I grew up in, but that's what's happened. I struggled a lot with the idea that I'd failed in life somehow and should have adventured further afield. The song is basically about coming to terms with this and growing to embrace and love where I'm from. I still have mixed feelings but I feel like I've made my peace with it."
I am digging the sound, the attitude, the look and feel in my head. Go to Mild Card's Spotify and dip into "Mild Abandon".
-Robb Donker Curtius
Gentle giant, quite compliant. Born to be mild. I'm from a little town called Worthing on the south coast of the UK. I'm a one man band and played everything you're hearing on the album. Why no friends? Why no band? You ask!... I have a two year old and I've basically recorded this in the tiny moments I can find between keeping a roof over our heads and scraping Weetabix off the walls. As a consequence these songs are pretty to the point and the whole album is only about 28 minutes long.
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
Gentle giant, quite compliant. Born to be mild. I'm from a little town called Worthing on the south coast of the UK. I'm a one man band and played everything you're hearing on the album. Why no friends? Why no band? You ask!... I have a two year old and I've basically recorded this in the tiny moments I can find between keeping a roof over our heads and scraping Weetabix off the walls. As a consequence these songs are pretty to the point and the whole album is only about 28 minutes long.
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