ドイツ/ベルリン拠点のインディーポップアーティスト J Mahonが、1/17にTaxi Gauche Recordsからリリースしたニューシングル 'Gold States'のMVを公開!
ディレクターは J Mahon, Miriam Marlene。
昨年まで Emerson Snoweとしてオーストラリアを拠点に活動。5枚のアルバムと13枚のEPを発表し、King Kruleと共にツアーをしてました。
昨年9月のデビューアルバム『Everything Has A Life』にあった Sufjan Stevens, Sparklehorseのようなサウンドや雰囲気の延長にある楽曲。実際この曲のレコーディングは同時期に Syd Kemp (Thurston Moore, Vanishing Twin)と一緒に録ったそうです。
“’Gold States’ is loosely based on growing up in North Queensland, Australia. This idea of wantingsomething greater than I had and if I had just found this special ‘Gold State’ than everything in my life would make sense and I would be who I was meant to be. Whether the ‘Gold State’ was a mental place, or a physical place it didn’t matter. As a teenager and into my early twenties I never felt like I fit in or had the same kind of confidence as others around me. I didn’t really even know who I was. It seemed like everyone I knew had some kind of identity and a certain trajectory to their life - but I felt like a kind of chameleon. Especially when it came to music and art it never made sense for me to stay in the same kind of genre or have one specific kind of image. In terms of writing songs i’m glad I am this way though, and in my personal life I have slowly found who I am.”
20 JAN // Newcastle, Zerox
23 JAN // Glasgow, The Hug and Pint
26 JAN // Blackpool, The Bootleg Social
27 JAN // London, The Waiting Room