Mk.gee - Dime: Quarterback | Photo: Colors Studios
MK.GEE RELEASES ‘DIME: QUARTERBACK’
Mk.gee, aka Mike Gordon, released a new single, called “Dime: Quarterback,” a short time ago, and it’s smooth as cashmere, yet full of infectious textures, as well as Mk.gee’s dulcet tones.
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Gordon started out in music like many people, taking piano lessons at around six or seven years of age, followed by the guitar at age 11.
In an interview with Graham Corrigan of Pigeons & Planes, he told Corrigan his guitar influences included Eric Clapton and Jimi Henrix, because “[They] take these instruments and don’t play them how the instrument’s supposed to be played.”
Later, he left New Jersey for the Left Coast to attend USC’s Thornton School of Music, where he began playing in a band. Only he found his creativity stifled by playing with others. He wasn’t a prima donna, he just had a different musical vision for what he wanted to create.
Mk.gee’s voice, hushed, supple, and indulgent, invests the lyrics with elusive wistful timbres, tantalizing and bewitching.
So he went solo, releasing his own music. His big break came when Frank Ocean, on his Blonded Radio show, played “You,” a song Mk.gee had released in 2018.
“Dime: Quarterback” opens on a soft percolating rhythm flowing into a velvety guitar exuding tight pale colors full of gentle alluring resonance. Gently suffusing harmonies, almost symphonic in texture, glow in the backdrop, infusing the harmonics with radiant hues.
Mk.gee’s voice, hushed, supple, and indulgent, invests the lyrics with elusive wistful timbres, tantalizing and bewitching. As the music ripples on diaphanous tones rife with lustrous threads, the sensation is devout and nuanced, ethereal yet proximately delicious, like warm Velveeta cheese on the brink of bubbling from too much heat.
Mk.gee has it going on! Listening to “Dime: Quarterback” is akin to floating down a lazy river on a warm summer’s day, as puffy white clouds slide along a cerulean blue sky overhead. Do not miss this one!
