Mikey Demilio and the exhilaration, ennui and embracing romantic sadness of "Schulmans" Bonus: "Blue Ferrari"

 

image courtesy of fergy films /// "Passing the waves glow / Alien habitat garden floors /Speaking the lingo / Tell you that were over then call you right back / Call it a wrap..."

The exhilaration, ennui and embracing romantic sadness of "Schulmans", by New Jersey singer-songwriter / musician Mikey Demilio and from his brand new sophomore album "Billionaires Club", moves spritely like a restless night with friends and maybe a few people you don't exactly care for. I am loving the sonics here, the pushing bass line, easy but propulsive beat and the shapeshifting emotionality that Demilio brings to the card table. Here and on a lot of song on the album, there is a wistful sense of human connections and how tentative those connections can be. The pushing musiciality that (to me) stands on the medium between 80's new wave and 90's post punk as a framework for Demilio's lyrical poetry that feels more like fodder for an engrossing 300 page novel. Everything here is saturated in questions and the melancholia that life itself leaves on everyone if you have an empathetic spirit. Beautiful stuff.

One snippet that I love but then all the lyrics kill:

"And I hate to be a bother

For your world and your design
But the ship leaves before dawn over Montego
And they know
At the party there′s an author
Who writes futures before time
I cannot the stars upon your face though
At the party there's an author
Who writes futures time
I cannot the stars upon your face though
Your an Oxford bred comedian
Making jokes of all mankind
And I cannot see the flaws beyond your say so
Your say so
Oooo yeahhhhh"

Maybe Demilio, apart from a songwriter, should be a screenwriter.

BONUS-

On the track "Blue Ferrari" which feels a bit like Bowie's "Heroes" on it's head finds Demilio upbeat and again, telling stories. I think whether dealing with longing, dreaming or feeling lost or falling into the throes of wild abandon, decadence as a drug and absolute vulnerability as the purge, Demilio's poetry feels potent and filmic. Dig this track but just wish it was a lot longer.

BILLIONAIRES CLUB OUT NOW.

-Robb Donker Curtius





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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM 

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2CUye8tdQnjAw0FT9VmFWR

https://www.instagram.com/mikeydemilio/?hl=en


Born and raised in New Jersey, Mikey Demilio creates genre defying music that includes elements of indie, shoegaze, electronic, hip hop, and more.


Mikey Demilio, singer songwriter, musician, storyteller, indie rock, abstract pop, alt rock, new sophomore album "Billionaires Club", singles "Schulmans", "Blue Ferrari", post punk, new wave edges, new music, New Jersey,