MIKAL CRONIN - September 16 @ Adelaide Hall
MRG Concerts & Embrace Presents
MIKAL CRONIN
California psych pop
Merge Records
https://www.facebook.com/Music.MikalCronin
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September 16, 2015
Doors at 8pm
Adelaide Hall
250 Adelaide St.
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MCIII is the third album from Californian singer-songwriter Mikal Cronin. Marked by the lush arrangements, stunning melodies, and deeply personal lyrical work for which Cronin is now known, the album is also a deliberate attempt to simply go big.
Written and recorded over the course of 2014, between long bouts of touring, MCIII finds the Laguna Beach native splitting his latest full-length statement into two distinct halves. On Side A, behold a shimmering tsunami of furious, undeniable pop songs. On Side B, marvel at a beautifully wrought concept record in miniature, built around the radiant retelling of what Cronin calls his coming-of-age story: After leaving California to go to school in the Pacific Northwest, he found himself alone and adrift, struggling with debilitating back pain and a dissolving sense of self. Its about a pivotal moment in my life that changed things, just within a couple of months, he says. It was a shifting point that sent me on the path to doing what Im doing right now.
As he did on his self-titled 2011 debut and 2013s MCII, Cronin arranged and played nearly all of the record himself, including the tzouras, a traditional Greek string instrument he heard and subsequently bought while on tour in Athens. Theres French horn, saxophone, and trumpet. There are mood-altering crescendos and heartbreaking turns-of-phrase, guitars both gorgeous and pugnacious. No longer satisfied with the sound of just one string player, Cronin arranged parts for a full string quartet instead.
Its a continuation of what Ive been trying to do up until now, but Im finding a better way to do it, he says. Im finding a more successful way of working those unexpected elements and textures and instruments into a rock record, of exploring that wormhole and mushing everything together harmoniously. I like riding the line between the two, he adds. I like finding new ways to bring different musical worlds together.
