A latest observe from Los Angeles-based artist Mark Fain, “Meri Distress” exudes a hauntingly nostalgic psych-rock and people intertwining, balancing an intriguing daze with extra radiant vocal reflections. The songwriter, producer, and composer — who moved from Michigan to LA in 2015, beforehand carried out as Gun Lake — and recenly stop a 14-year animation profession in promoting. “Meri Distress” marks Fain’s first single since that profession swap, succeeding with a timeless-sounding attraction.
The observe was poignantly launched within the days main as much as the USA’s presidential election, and contemplates on the gravity of such — “an election the place we might both maintain onto hope or kick it to the curb,” Fain says. A foreboding sense of working out of time, and failing to be taught from previous errors, supplies a extra melancholic realism amidst the melodic and approachable manufacturing. “I can’t sustain with distress,” the central refrain laments, conveying a way of insomnia and anxiousness as what continues to unfold. “Meri Distress” is an affecting, well timed success from Mark Fain.
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This and different tracks featured this month might be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Rising Singles’ Spotify playlist.
