In honor of Black Historical past Month, Atwood Journal has invited artists to take part in a collection of essays reflecting on identification, music, tradition, inclusion, and extra.
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At present, Austin, TX-based author, performer, producer, filmmaker, and one-man tour de drive Mobley shares a particular poem for Atwood Journal’s Black Historical past Month collection!
Mobley’s songs have racked up tens of millions of streams on DSPs and landed sync placements on HBO, FOX, NBC, ESPN, and CW; seen airplay provides on Alt Nation, KROQ, KUTX, ACL Radio, and KEXP; and obtained reward from Billboard, Noisey, Rolling Stone, The New York Instances, Consequence of Sound, and American Songwriter. Whereas the studio is his old flame, Mobley is most at residence on the highway. The consummate frontman has performed dozens of festivals worldwide, and opened for Chilly Battle Children, Phantogram, James Blake, Bishop Briggs, and plenty of extra.
The current second finds Mobley centered on the longer term: “Residing with and dealing via these songs and tales has been probably the most fulfilling problem of my creative life. I can’t wait to share all of it and see the life it takes on when it’s now not simply mine.”
Mobley’s newest single, “No Exit,” is out now, and his forthcoming album, ‘We Do Not Concern Ruins,’ releases April twenty third on Final Gang Information/MNRK Music. “No Exit” finds Mobley time-traveling to mix retro, fashionable, and futuristic sounds. The track begins with a Morricone-inspired whistled motif, however beneath the groove and cinematic swagger, it’s a meditation on solipsism, solitude, and the “undiscovered nation” of the afterlife. The stress between the track’s laidback verses and earnest, pleading choruses mirrors the tensions in Jacob, a perpetual loner who however proclaims his love for humanity, crying out within the chorus, “What am I with out individuals?” The video handles the track’s weighty themes with a wholesome dose of cheek and dry humor.
Learn Mobley’s poem for Black Historical past Month beneath, and hearken to “No Exit” and extra wherever you stream music!
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by Mobley
there may be nothing fairly like the joys of refusal
Black refusal
to be governable or
marketable or
make oneself understood
to be mounted by the gaze of one other
to learn the efficiency one’s numerous identification
solely from acquainted, respectable scripts
to intone the sanctioned litanies
to spend any
extra life than completely
mandatory
biting tongue, biding time via the shortest month of the 12 months
there may be nothing fairly like the joys of refusal
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