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Mike Marlin - Steve McQueen
Mike Marlin - Skull Beneath the Skin
MIKE MARLIN ‘THE SECRET OF MY SUCCESS’
NEW ALBUM OUT MAY 6TH 2016
THE SECRET https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ78lPdqn14
Q MAGAZINE
"Songs about serial killers, sex and death feel like lost late-'70s classics, a great, growling rock voice and a brilliant record?”
THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
"Part Leonard Cohen's The Future, part early Psychedelic Furs, Grand Reveal could be the work of a rock veteran. The most refreshing thing about it is its total disregard for musical trends.”
Mike Marlin’s new album The Secret Of My Success (see what he did there?) is the follow up to 2013’s widely lauded Grand Reveal and probably the strangest record you will hear all year. I say “probably” because 2016 is still young and we don't know yet what Marlin has planned for the rest of the year. Marlin has suggested before that he believes in “making cathedrals out of matchsticks” and perhaps The Secret Of My Success is the fruition of this ultimately rather terrifying and abstract concept; with this record Mike has built the cathedral and burnt it down. Sardonically self-mocking, enigmatic and yet engaging, the album is full of darkly strategic reminiscences on a wide spectrum of topics dealing with compromise, disappointment and stifled ambition (Like A Photograph), descent into dementia (Avalanche), the vast scale of the universe and the meaning of a single life (Whale Hill and Missing Piece), the constant war between the false gods of science and religion (Gravity Lies), and the complex emotional webs that entangle and define us (The Secret and Caroline). Ultimately, it’s a collaboration between Marlin and celebrated Scottish collage artist and Aspect art prizewinner Colin Brown (www.colinbrown.eu) who has created paintings to accompany each song on the album; the paintings developed after long conversations during which Marlin would discuss the songs and supply photographs and art clippings whilst Brown took notes and sketched ideas. The resultant combination is an art project featuring both the aural aspects of Mike’s songs and the visual components of Colin’s interpretations of the songs.
The first taster from the album comes in the form of a video for ‘The Secret’- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ78lPdqn14
With artist Colin Brown’s significant contribution to this record, it follows naturally that the launch of The Secret of My Success will be an art exhibition with live music. For a week, starting on the 25th of April, Colin Brown’s artwork will be on display at Gallery Different (http://www.gallerydifferent.co.uk/home), a gallery in Fitzrovia that presents contemporary painting, sculpture, drawing, print, photography and mixed media from British and international artists. On the 26th and 27th April there will be live performances by Mike Marlin and the Melomaniacs. The album will be made available from May 5th and in addition to releasing ‘The Secret of My Success’ as a CD and digitally online, the album will also be available as a double vinyl in a limited edition box-set also containing the CD and a beautifully crafted book featuring Colin’s paintings alongside lyrics and further writing by Mike. The box-set will be available at Gallery Different.
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Mike Marlin To Release New Album, Grand Reveal
Mike Marlin - Grand Reveal [album] out April 8th 2013 Music OMH – ‘lyrically astute, musically measured and quintessentially English introspections’ Grumpy Rocker - Nearly Man (Records of the Year 2011) The Music Fix – ‘Pink Floyd running riot in a jazz club’ Whisperin' And Hollerin' – ‘There's no smoke and mirrors, deception or trickery: Marlin's all about quality songwriting, but the fuller arrangement and the epic chorus is the perfect foil for his grizzly delivery.’ Music News – ‘The further you travel through this album, the more beautiful the songs become’ (Man on the Ground - Album) Subba Cultcha – ‘The album as a whole happily sitting say amongst Bowie’s 70’s records a la Diamond Dogs, all saxophones, keyboards and reflection’ (Nearly Man - Album) -- Drawing influence from, and comparisons to, Nick Cave's Murder Ballads, welcome to 'Grand Reveal', the third album from Mike Marlin. There is a simple song (‘Lying Next To Me’) on ‘Grand Reveal’ that is a perfect example of what Mike does terrifically well. You immediately identify with the sentiment: how much do you trust the person you’re with? But on repeated listening, it dawns on you that perhaps it is the protagonist who should not be trusted. Nothing on this record is quite what it seems. The future single ‘War To Begin’ - “And I’ve been here before/Standing in my uniform/Waiting for this bloody war to begin” – is it a call to arms? Or a lament for lives wasted on envy and excuses? The hauntingly Nick Cave-esque ‘The Murderer’ features wind up toys, strings and discordant guitars to create a horror movie soundtrack. Is it about an unnamed killer? Or is it about you, the murderer, forever killing time? A real horror movie! Mike was brought up in suburbia. When he was four years old he lost an eye while playing in the garden at home. The accident was traumatic and it turned Mike into the person he is today. Children are cruel and there was plenty of fuel for his anger and competitiveness. He became withdrawn and introspective. His outlet was academic and he became something of a child prodigy and at the age of seventeen won a scholarship to Oxford to study Physics. -- This weekend Mike heads off on a UK tour with Huey and the New Yorkers:
Saturday March 9th Wolverhampton Slade Rooms
Sunday March 10th Manchester Club Academy
Monday March 11th York Duchess
Tuesday March 12th Preston Guildhall
Thursday March 14th Gloucester Guildhall
Friday March 15th Nottingham Rescue Rooms
Saturday March 16th Stoke Sugarmill
Monday March 18th Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
Tuesday March 19th London Putney Half Moon
Well, maybe I'm perfect. But you can do better.
Mike Marlin
Mike Marlin. The Interview
This is Mike Marlin in front of the Mill Pond in Cambridge. Look at those punts go. Grand Reveal.