Fireflies - Mother Falcon
I’ve had a tumultuous week filled with stress, confusion, and sweat. In times when things feel mixed up, I make a mixtape. It tends to, at least, represent a musical snapshot in my life that I can look back on and go, I remember that…even if sometimes, I’d rather remember the peaks rather than the valleys.
Mother Falcon was one of the key ingredients to my mixtape of mixed emotions and for good reason. Listening to not only “Fireflies”, but also “Alligator Teeth” is an experience that leaves you wondering what happened and where can you get more. Because it’s nothing I’ve ever heard, I tend to bounce from tugged heart strings to agressive passion to melancholic confusion. This is all thanks to the ever changing group of classically trained musicians on strings, brass, and drums led by Nick Gregg on vocals. Let’s face it, you add strings into any song and The Emotion Advisory System threat level will go from yellow to orange.
So whatever you’re searching for in new music (even if it’s not emotive), I think a good bet would be a long hard listen to Mother Falcon. Where indie music tends to draw the line at either synth-drone-beach-wave or Americana-folk-rock… Mother Falcon truly spreads their wings into a completely new musical direction.
