Mark Millar – Mystery (2024)
Tapping into a realm of mystical melodies to express both the good and bad sides of the real world, singer-songwriter Mark Millar oscillates between the joyful and the poignant in his music. While this is the first time Mark Millar has crossed my ears, he is no newbie having performed with various bands in previous years. In 2019, Millar embraced a solo career and began releasing original music beginning with the eight-track album On The Journey. For about five years now the UK-based artist took us on a journey through old-school folk-rock, and he’s still navigating the path with his new single ‘Mystery’.
Following the track ‘The Great Adventure’, Millar enters 2024 with ‘Mystery’. As with most of his work, the influence of Mark Knopfler flows through; however, ‘Mystery’ is darker, deeper and more haunting than previous material. Shifting from a brighter folk tone in ‘The Great Adventure’, bold blues guitars match heavy drums offering a more profound feeling in the folk-rock style. For me, it is the prominent blues guitar that truly captures the intimate, intricate complexity of Millar’s theme. Interestingly, it is this old-school blues that holds raw gritty vulnerability bound in sophisticated production.
As I mentioned, Mark Millar is inspired by life in its totality; the very existence we humans experience every day. In a melancholy sense, ‘Mystery’ expresses the mixture of mundane and extraordinary. It finds a balance between boldness and vulnerability encompassing the fragility but resilience of humans. Millar explains:
“The song is about the mystery of the passing incidental interactions we have each day, some of no consequence, others are set to catch up with us at some point in the future.”
Sincere, sentimental, introspective and moving, listening to Millar’s music is like travelling to a distant land with eagerness. ‘Mystery’ retains sentimental sincerity, and it ups the ante of mystical mysteriousness existing in our everyday lives. I cannot wait to hear what else Mark Millar has for us.
Find out more about Mark Millar on his official website, Facebook, Instagram and Spotify.
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