New Music From Eugene McGuinness
Your Own Personal Troubadour
The ability to bring a painting to life by way of song is a very hard task. Love and hate is always fun to chant along to with your buddies while getting drunk in the local tavern, but letting yourself get lost in song with a bottle of wine, a couple loud speakers and a few candles burning in the foreground is a scenario that should be visited at least once a week.
Make a note on your calendar to spend some quality private time with London native and Liverpool educated Eugene McGuinness. His latest single, "Moscow State Circus," from his self-titled debut (Domino), is a dizzying romantic pop song. Tricking the listener into believing they're hearing Neil Diamond's "Kentucky Woman" at the song's start, McGuinness takes us into a warped world filled with rabbit holes, Chinese whispers and hammerhead sharks. His visually compelling lyrics are akin to the psychedelic musings of Robyn Hitchcock or the dark carnival ride that was the last Patrick Wolf record.
At the ripe old age of 22, Eugene McGuinness is fresh face in his genre. While his contemporaries (The Week That Was, Field Music) write with a quick wit and a quick beat, McGuinness turns this sort of nervous energy into something much more gentle and much more sweet.
Posted by Joe Roth on Jan 16, 2009 @ 7:00 am
