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Matt Mosquito – Hard on Me: An Unscaled Cascade of Emotion

Posted on 19 December 2017

Matt Mosquito’s latest track Hard on Me set the record for just how much angst you can squeeze into just one track. The sickeningly talented composer, producer and remixer created the ultimate anthem for fans to stick on their rage pacifying playlists.

There’s a certain magic to this track that you can’t quite put your finger on, well, not before the sound consumes you into an overwhelming state of positive rage. Even without the vocals the beat of the Alternative Electronic Rock track is one of the most cathartic sounds I’ve ever heard it hits with such veracity it’s bound to get your heart pounding.

The lyrics to Hard on Me resonated within me so deeply, I could taste the vehemence in Joe Page’s voice as he spat out the venomous lyrics which accompanied the harsh yet beautifully orchestral track to create the perfect pissed off melody. Hard on Me was written as an ode to a doomed relationship, but it’s not your ordinary post-breakup track, it’s a masterpiece.

This track was engineered to create a pure unscaled cascade of wounded emotion by a composer with the ability to create an orchestral sound and he pulled it off better than I thought was humanly possible.

It’s safe to say he’s blown me away, check out Hard on Me via SoundCloud using the link below:

https://soundcloud.com/mattmosquito/hard-on-me

Embers Burn Brightly

Posted on 2 December 2017

Woman, the first musical card from Embers forth coming album, is all the ammunition that you will need to convince you that pop is in safe hands, though pop isn’t really an effective enough term to pin down where this song sits generically. Yes, it has all the infectiousness and accessibility that the genre implies but there is so much more going on as well. It has the glitchy groove of a trip-hop classic, the sultry sass of a soul standard and a brooding and considered alt-rock presence.

And that is the joy of the modern musical world, as genres bleed into each other and boundaries are no longer stumbling blocks, savvy artists realise that anything is possible. Whilst many acts attempting such generic musical fusions find that the result is a watered down middle ground which seems to be a musical compromise, Embers instead seem to feel more intense and more focused than the rest and the result is a wonderful strand of dark alternative pop that for all its brooding undercurrents heralds in a bright future for music.