Jon Mortimer - Restless Heart (mp3)
My old band-mate Jon Mortimer has called himself a lot of things since We Grow Up parted ways. Jonathan Blake, Kids In Love, The Sunday Gang, Sputnik Sweetheart and Dear Sputnik all lie strewn by the wayside now that he's settled on the name on his birth certificate to play under. Nomenclature aside, Jon's been consistently writing his constistently well-written songs on the sly the whole time.
Thankfully, investing in an iPad and microphone means he can finally share his new gems with the world, and by the world I mean me. I really wanted to hear the darn things! With the earnest (and potentially dicey) mix of sci-fi cheese and humming melodrama afforded by Garage Band synth strings in many ways he's harking back to the simple bedroom sounds of his earliest stuff with We Grow Up (which incidentally won him Triple J Unearthed under his own name), but with a much better grasp of the songwriting tools at his disposal.
Young Anne Fey packs a powerful, Neil Young-channeling chorus and an undeniably gorgeous middle eight, but the less than subtle rape-y overtones of the lyrics kind of irk me, so I'll share 'Restless Heart' with you instead. Written in Canada, no less.
photo by Sia Duff
Thankfully, investing in an iPad and microphone means he can finally share his new gems with the world, and by the world I mean me. I really wanted to hear the darn things! With the earnest (and potentially dicey) mix of sci-fi cheese and humming melodrama afforded by Garage Band synth strings in many ways he's harking back to the simple bedroom sounds of his earliest stuff with We Grow Up (which incidentally won him Triple J Unearthed under his own name), but with a much better grasp of the songwriting tools at his disposal.
Young Anne Fey packs a powerful, Neil Young-channeling chorus and an undeniably gorgeous middle eight, but the less than subtle rape-y overtones of the lyrics kind of irk me, so I'll share 'Restless Heart' with you instead. Written in Canada, no less.
photo by Sia Duff
