Mo Klé and the indie folk rock roll and rolling folk grounded propulsive rock of "Expert"

 

"I lost trust in graphs and numbers / ‘Cause they change their meaning all too often / 1 plus 1 is 2 I thought / Yet someone always claims I’m wrong / Depending which side I’m on..."


The indie folk rock roll and rolling folk grounded propulsive rock of "Expert" by Mo Klé, the moniker of Swiss songwriter René Grünenfelder, is a track built out of many things. I love the driving late 70's to late 80's indie rock noir elements that make me think of Tom Petty (actually) and the mid aughts indie rock revisions that make me think of The Sound or the current garden rock flowers of artists like Kevin Morby and Dungen. Now I don't mean these comparisons or descriptors as direct sounds but more like artistic attitudes and lyrical thought provocations whether veiled with social commentary or politico thought bubbles.

One thing that makes me want to listen, is Grünenfelder vocal countenance that feels comfortable while feeling knowing or maybe more to the point, pointedly self aware of what he is feeling. It is like his songs are secrets he decides to share and his sense of melody as, a bohemian street philosopher of sorts (I mean in the 60's he would have certainly been a beat poet) is evocative and just damn pretty, an appetizer and main course all at once. 

LINER NOTES (excerpted / bracketed):

[Expert is the focus single of my upcoming album "Three Chords and a Shaking Hand" that dropped on June 19. The song is a commentary on today’s culture of debate, the media landscape, and the post-truth era we live in. Most people have probably noticed how inflationary the term ‘expert’ has become nowadays. People are quickly labelled as experts, and any inconvenient opinions or facts can just as quickly be dismissed as false or illegitimate — often without even listening to the other side. At the same time, many people place such strong trust in experts that they no longer dare, or no longer make the effort, to question their views. That troubles me, and Expert is my attempt to express that feeling.]

LYRICS

I lost trust in graphs and numbers
‘Cause they change their meaning all too often
1 plus 1 is 2 I thought
Yet someone always claims I’m wrong
Depending which side I’m on

I got lost in words and speeches
of journalists and politicians
They debate like greek philosophers
Idly on a hill
Don’t they know they know nothing at all

Everyone is an expert
Everyone gives advice
Rumours turn to facts
And facts turn into lies
Their lies will be the proof that only your beliefs are true
In the end it needs an expert to fool an expert too

I am confused by all the rumble
And the roaring in this jungle
What is right, what is left, even ,
what is odd
I am hopelessly deluded
I guess so are you

But sometimes I play along
And pretend to know it all
So listen carefully cause here comes my advice
When someone claims to be an expert
Think about it twice

-Robb Donker Curtius

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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM 

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3VSRIm4ptRXzPA4tutfGeH

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_08oClLad4Kucf1SVwrQkw

https://www.instagram.com/MoKleSongs/

https://www.facebook.com/MoKleSongs/

https://www.mo-kle.com/



Mo Klé is the stage name of the Swiss songwriter René Grünenfelder. He manages to capture the essence of his songs with just an acoustic guitar, an unmistakable voice, and acerbic lyrics in English, German or Swiss German when performing live.

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