Taste Test: Man of the Minch drowns in the ‘Undertow’
The Scottish singer-songwriter delivers a wallop of a performance with a new song.
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Foolishly, we try various vain attempts to mend our broken heart. We may even detach ourselves completely from feeling much of anything. But the emotional collapse will always catch up, that much is true. Bending folk with the sparkle of contemporary pop music, Scotland-rooted singer-songwriter Man of the Minch not only confronts the anguish addling his poor brain but shoves the daggers of accountability further into his wounded form. With “Undertow,” he contrasts the bright sheen of fiddle against the darkly-swirling melancholy clouding every corner of his being. “Second chances only work when there’s no undertow,” he sings, relinquishing it all on the atomic hook. Yet the emotional currency boomerangs back into his sphere before he even has a chance to process or cope much of any of it. Only his song is capable of freeing his bones in the end.
“Undertow” is one-half a single release, paired with “Better Off Alone.”
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