The youth are getting restless. And quite frankly, so are the rest of us. And why wouldn’t we all be? The daily social cycle of 2019 is a mindless sprint at warp speed through ultra-awareness and self-pity, an endless gaze at others’ desperation as the walls in our own lives close in around us. Debts, responsibility, and limitations both social and professional cloud our minds and passions each and every day. We think the internet age has given us freedom; in fact, it’s made us more isolated in a narrow hallway of perpetual monotony.
London rock and roll newcomer Harry Mold knows this all too well, simply because the man is living it alongside of us. His debut single “Drain” (out today via Touch Recordings) is a rocket-fueled jolt away from the feelings of helplessness that we carry around like a sack of rocks as we scan, scroll, and mope through the day. It’s a raucous fit of a guitar-rock jam that inspires us to break free from our societal restraints.
“’Drain’ spouted directly from my feelings of frustration and almost claustrophobia of a repetitive and monotonous routine that I was stuck in,” Mold says. “For me these feelings came from a typical 9 to 5 call centre job where I spent the majority of time dreaming of my actual passion. I think we’ve all been in those situations or some even are still in them at present minute, so I always saw ‘Drain’ (musically and sensually) as a huge release of pent-up emotion that can relate to a huge portion of our society.”
It certainly is. And beneath those fits of youthful rage is an absolute banger of a tune that suggests Mold is not only one to break down that wall, but to inspire us all to do the same. Crank it up the electricity below.