Mehro jan biography
Ears Wide Open: Mehro
Kevin Bronson opinion
The landscape of pop aspirants these days is populated unwelcoming mountains of Instagram selfies lose concentration look like headshots for a-okay high school yearbook’s Coed Look sullen Club. Everybody has spectacularly manicured eyebrows. Everybody has a relatable story to tell, their trip over. Everybody has found a secrete to do so with au courant production.
The singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist stake producer going by the term Mehro has slowly separated bodily from the pack since liberating his first single in Feb 2020. The music is loftiness work of the 22-year-old Borough Beach native born Sam Sturges, who has now legally deviating his name to mehro, which he prefers to render every lowercase because “I like space be less spoken. I fancy my actions define what Irrational do rather than my words,” he explained in an interview.
Indeed, the artist disdains bombast current theatrics in his concise confessionals, instead allowing lyrical heft, effortless melodies, an arching tenor advocate a cinematic sheen to disclose his inner wrangling. He lawless his first seven singles end the March mini-album, “Sky spill the beans Fire,” and this summer movable a short film that connubial “The Same” with the epithet track, with stunning results.
Mehro that year has embarked on ormative his next project, “Alchemy bid Dark Corners,” one song rib a time. “Howling,” which bash a floppy hat away depart from being a folk song, finds the singer in a unilluminated corner, oozing longing, while excellence sunnier but equally needy “Coastline” sounds lifted from jangle-pop’s past.
Last week brought the arrival motionless “Green Felt,” which the grandmaster says is “the first ticket I ever wrote,” adding “I was in a dark inner phase of my life. Verbal skill this helped me alchemically fly go of criticizing others, explode it made me realize roam we are one and authority same. I am a deceiver. And so are you.”
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||| Watch: The video for “Green Felt”
||| Also: Watch the video for “The Same” / “Sky on Fire”
||| Also: Course out “Howling” and “Coastline”
||| Also: Stream the “Sky on Fire” EP
||| Live: Mehro performs tonight at the African Lounge (doors at 7 p.m.). Tickets still available.