MARSEILLE - ONLY JUST BEGUN

 

...THE ROAD IS LONG...

2023 is here and there're off, the lads from Derby are charging from single to single and strength to strength!  Two months since the release of Freedom, a single which capped off an incredible jaw dropping year for the band, and yes there are a few out there still lost in The Jungle, trying to find their way back!

After proclaiming the new era of Marseille, the band returns to kick it up in January with their new janglelicious single Only Just Begun!  Coming full circle back with their signature Mersey beat sound, the new five piece Marseille are no way looking backward.  The single feels as fresh and exciting as all of their recent releases have.  

The track opens up with Lennon, now on rhythm guitar, swirling round and wrapping you up just before the beat hits.  And when it does hit it's simply idyllic, this is a sun shiny groove that makes you want to move!   Will's signature vocal is unmistakable, emotionally charged as it floats over the rhythm's hooks, recounting feelings of a relationship's end, and honestly who hasn't been there.  The song and the vocal fade like a soft harmonic echo in your head, with Will's final chorus..."don't wanna be that guy, cause it's only just begun!" 

And there you have it New Music Friday, twenty days into the new year and Marseille are bolting.  Three days in the studio, done, a March tour quickly selling and a new single to boot.  The lads from Darby aren't taking a break and why should they....It's Only Just Begun!

Joe Peacock - On Fire Again

 LIGHTENING STRIKES!

Out of the coldest and darkest month of the year; almost forgotten between last year's best of music lists, and the anticipation of Spring, January is often shuffled aside in forgotten to do lists, quickly broken resolutions, and plans for Summer holidays.  But despair not, the scene is industriously at work; planning, writing, recording and mastering, and out of the storm......lightening strikes! 

Birmingham's Joe Peacock lights it up and explodes out of the darkness with his powerful new single On Fire Again.  The second release since July's album Mirror Neuron Generator, a collection of eclectic electronica and haunting vocals, On Fire Again strips out any hint of over production, and brings Joe back to the gritty, the bombastic, the indie!  

Laden with proto punk energy, On Fire Again hooks you straight off with this rainy night in the city, plunky, Velvet Underground style lead riff. The chorus amps the noise and Joe leads an uptown guitar assault, filled with garage noise, reminiscent of early, moody, Sonic Youth.  

Always the  consummate storyteller, with On Fire Again Joe recounts the real life story of a man who holds the record for being struck by lightning the most times...incredibly seven! "Seven times a one in half a million chance, He didn’t want to be a lightning rod" One would be honestly enough in my opinion!  The lyrics continue to weave in imagery of life, death, and rebirth related to lightening, "A livid path is gone too fast, A sign this day could be your last, Or will you be reborn again?"

Like the Phoenix from the ashes, On Fire Again ignites musically and builds it up to burn it down, to the point where we're finally left with Joe's cryptic instructions "Watch the skies, always watch the skies...".  The January night just got a little brighter!