Merrow Music is a concept album that takes the listener on a journey from the dirty streets of a rainy city to the coast of Ireland. Many of the song’s themes deal with powerlessness and alienation felt at the end of a relationship.
Made specifically for vinyl, Side A has a darker feel with a murder ballad: “The Cross I Bear,” and a Dostoyevsky inspired song: “Raskolnikov.” The side ends with the lighter but ominous foreshadowing of “Writing on the Wall.”
Side B however, shows a celtic influence with airy tunes about mermaids and fairies, a rebel song about Theobald Wolfe Tone, and a traditional reel accompanied by mandolin and Irish bouzouki. Still themes of struggling with a lost identity are hinted at.
The album comes full circle with a surreal Kafka inspired song and a final plea to a lost lover.
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