The March Divide – King of The Lost Cause
Similar artists: Sparklehorse, Sunny Day Real Estate, Band of Horses, Dashboard Confessional, Jimmy Eat World
Genre: Pop Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Pop
Back in the early 1960s, kids from England started playing their own version of the blues. They had little to be sad about for long. Bands like The Rolling Stones rode their own version o the delta blues all across to the top of the charts. This made them rich above belief, and famous enough that if you asked a granny out in the Bulgarian countryside about Mick Jagger’s lips, she’d answer with a wink.
These sorts of kids, not simply those living in England, clearly needed their own version of the blues. Yes, Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters were incredible performers. But, frankly, their experiences could have been as removed from the ones of the young artists that covered them, as mine to that of people living in the mid-18th Century.
They eventually found a sound that could truly and accurately capture their blues. Much of the world stupidly opted to call it “emo”. It had a ring to it and stuck around. The March Divide’s King of The Lost Cause is a blues song, with a deep emotional crease struck right across it. The song works as a companion that’s ready to confess feelings of daily misery that are, at least, as intense as your own. A lot of people feel this. Many of them are forced by this to become creative. They have to sing the blues, and The March Divide provide one of the known and approved versions of it.
Zepet – Poison
Similar artists: Arctic Monkeys, Gorillaz, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Alfie Templeman
Genre: Indie Rock
The great poets manage to find the words that act as a spell that makes their message undeniable to whoever hears it. Yes, some of them concern themselves with balladeering their loved ones. Certainly, there are some using their rhymes to talk about great, heroic victories. But, the greatest ones are always able to hold a mirror to the world and force it to stare at it.
Poetry and mystery usually go hand in hand. In an era where there is little left to the imagination, and where news from any corner of the world is delivered to your phone in minutes, there’s little left to the imagination. Modern-day bards have their work cut out for them. It makes some of them mean, hungry, and willing to start a fight.
Zepet’s Poison is a poem, wrapped in a smooth jazzy, smooth indie-pop sound about the era of the “fake news panic”. The Argentine singer minces no words and spares no shots. However, the performer also knows how to dress and sound the part. The tune has a strong Cool Britannia influence. It should be enough to help him get Zepet’s foot through the door, and his message heard. Throw away your television, but don’t forget about your smartphone too!
