With its seductive grooves and impassioned vocal lines, Mk.gee’s dynamic “ROCKMAN” is utterly electrifying – an intoxicating, immersive, and irresistible fever dream.
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You can laugh it off, but you started a war…
With its seductive grooves and impassioned vocal lines, the latest Mk.gee revelation is more upbeat than what we’ve heard from the artist this year – and no less enchanting or electrifying.
Following February’s debut album Two Star & The Dream Police and August’s standalone single “Lonely Fight,” “ROCKMAN” (released October 18th via R&R Digital) is another smoldering eruption out of NJ-born singer/songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Michael Todd Gordon’s singular, trailblazing musical mind.
The dynamic and dreamy new single finds Mk.gee caught up, seemingly in the throes of passion as, over pulsating guitar licks and hypnotizing drum beats, he fervently declares, “Honey just shut up and ride. Wherever you are, I want it on fire.”
Keep it up, you started a war
Keep it up, you started a war
Oh, you can laugh it off
But you started a war (Oh, oh, yeah)
Oh, you can laugh it off
But you started a war (Oh, oh, yeah)…
Intense yearning coalesces with the intensity of a single moment as Mk.gee builds out this world made for two. Tension rises as pianos join the mix, adding a fresh texture and brighter sound to his intimate, intoxicating reverie.
Honey, look close into my eyes
Whenever I feel, I need you tonight
Keep it up (You started — hah)
Keep it up, you started a war
Can’t see you, but I see what you’re saying
The little moves that you’re making
We can bite down on the world for the taking
The little ones that you’re making
Can’t see you, but I see what you’rе saying
The little moves that you’rе making
We can bite down on the world for the taking
Baby, ooh, can’t you take it?
Mk.gee has a proven track record for making music with not just heart, but depth – music that can capture the weight of what we feel within our souls in moments of turmoil, tension, and trouble.
He isn’t just a guitarist or a singer/songwriter or a producer; he’s an artistic visionary crafting his own signature style and unique, revolutionary sound. Still only eight months old, his debut LP Two Star & the Dream Police is a breathtakingly bold experience – a feast for the ears and a blanket for the soul that earned its place on Atwood‘s mid-year Best Albums of 2024 (So Far) feature. Its twelve songs are at once angular and ambient, jarring and soothing, dramatic and dreamy – each one a multi-dimensional melding of warm, wondrous melodies, shiver-inducing textures, awe-inspiring timbres, cryptically cathartic lyrics, and raw, rich emotions worthy of repeat listens and deep-diving examinations.
Mk.gee followed his album up with the moody single “Lonely Fight,” a tender late-night reverie that is both cinematic in scope and intimate in perspective – a warm, gentle, and heavy soundscape, and the ideal soundtrack to those moments when we find ourselves alone, unsure of where we’re headed, what we’re doing, or even who we are anymore.
For as brooding as “Lonely Fight” is, “ROCKMAN” is an uptempo fever dream.
Aching though it may be underneath, “ROCKMAN” is equally soothing – a feel-good fervor, its deep grooves as intoxicating and immersive as they are irresistible.
That Mk.gee also added some endearing hawk sounds and phaser noises to the final twenty seconds of the mix just makes the track that much more fun to play on repeat, which I will be doing now through year’s end.
Oh, you can laugh it off
But you started a war (Oh, oh, yeah)
Oh, you can laugh it off
But you started a war (Oh, oh, yeah)
Oh, you can laugh it off
But you started a war (Oh, oh, yeah)
Oh, you can laugh it off
But you started a war (Oh, yeah)
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