In honor of New Zealand Music Month, here’s a track from twenty-year-old bedroom freak-folk prodigy Daniel McBride.
“Glare” begins with hypnotic guitar arpeggios looping over riffling percussions, but it’s the chorus that really hooks me—it has a surprising funk you wouldn’t expect from a skinny white kid from Auckland, least of all one harmonizing about the difficulties of being pale.
The immensely talented McBride writes, records, and produces all of his music alone in his bedroom, releasing it under the moniker Sheep, Dog & Wolf. His debut album, Egospect, was up for the lauded $10,000 Taite Music Prize for 2014, but was beaten out by Pure Heroine from Lorde, who went and split the prize between the other contenders anyway.
Egospect was released last August via Lil’ Chief Records, and is available to download in a pay-what-you-what format (as long as you want to pay at least $6.50, and to be fair, you probably do).
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