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Marky Wildtype – Tell Me Again

Tell Me Again” is the latest single by Marky Wildtype, an Edinburgh-based alternative rock artist. It’s his first single in 2024 that announces “If Destroyed Still True,” an upcoming second full-length album. Soundwise, Marky Wildtype combines many different but complementary music genres to illustrate such rich and luxurious sonic imagery. Perhaps alternative rock comes to mind first, but you’ll notice how some of the finest properties borrowed from garage rock, noise rock, art rock, glitch, and indie music found their way into this sonic equation. Marky Wildtype uses these additional elements as more than necessary enhancements, accentuations, decorations, and other details that unquestionably enhance his latest single on an entirely new level, while he simultaneously remains loyal to the primary sonic direction. Therefore, these experimentations resulted in a catchy, powerful, hypnotic track that will appeal to even the pickiest fans of alternative rock music.

Photo courtesy of the band.

As soon as you press play, you’ll notice how this clever musician thought about everything while assembling this number. He thoroughly planned the entire song structure by adding many segments empowered by brilliant ideas and exceptional musicianship. You’ll hear how the bass guitar reigns supreme from scratch to finish by delivering raw, abrasive, fuzzy, heavily distorted low-end notes. These robust, heavy, colossal basslines offer more than necessary heaviness, clarity, and depth to the mix. It’s also good to mention that bass guitar serves as a perfect backdrop for the wisely composed synth leads, themes, melodies, and harmonies. Just like the bass, synths, and keys play a significant role in this sonic equation by contrasting the heaviness of the mentioned instrument. The way they pair together in the mix is nearly mindblowing.

“Tell Me Again” wouldn’t sound this good without an outstanding drumming performance. Like the other instrumentations, Marky Wildtype paid attention to the rhythm section, so you’ll notice how the profoundly detailed, energetic, well-accentuated beats, breaks, fills, and other percussive acrobatics dictate and pace, while simultaneously keeping the remainder of the orchestrations in line. The guitars serve as more than necessary enhancements during the particular segments, while Marky Wildtype placed the bass guitar upfront. He also blended bass, guitars, and synths, so all these instrumentations arrive as a colossal wall of sound.

You should put “Tell Me Again” on your radar because Marky Wildtype has poured all his experience, knowledge, skills, talent, and ideas into this track, and his efforts resulted in an addictive, hypnotic, heavy alternative rock track that breaks all the rules and shapeshifts the boundaries of the genre. It stands out as more than a rock-solid proof of what happens when the artist thinks outside the box and creates music from the heart. The single is available on all streaming platforms. Don’t miss it!

Djordje Miladinović

Hi, my name is Djordje and music is my passion. You'll probably find me at the gigs, in a local record store, distro or in front of my PC searching for some quality music to listen to. Do not hesitate to contact me. By becoming a Patron, you're keeping Thoughts Words Action alive. https://www.patreon.com/thoughtswordsaction

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