d.c.R. Pollock - 'Michael Jordan Statue'
d.c.R. Pollock feels the pressure of his professional life preventing him from fulfilling the duties in his personal life on genre-blending single, ‘MJ Statue’.
Getting round to reviewing this d.c.R. Pollock song has been the equivalent of being invited to a party that I don’t want to go to, even though everyone I love is going to be there and I know i’ll have a great time. In fact, one of the first things I said to d.c.R is the trouble I was going to face in articulating why ’MJ Statue’ is a good track. It’s more than that, it’s a great track and d.c.R has a proficiency for pulling from indie rock, experimental, jazz and R&B influences in a way you might think wouldn’t work on paper.
In terms of contemporaries, ‘MJ State’ sees d.c.R’s sound fall somewhere between Bright Eyes and Typhoon. It’s an honest, narrative-driven track featuring eerie, clunky textures that adds a weighty nostalgia and almost a surreal feeling to the song. As the track progresses, the textures become more warped and urgent as d.c.R.’s distinctive vocal atmospherically shudders with raw emotion, becoming more potent and crazed amidst the chaos of the song’s production, reflecting the conflicted feelings in the lyrical theme.
On the track d.c.R. Pollock explains, “This song is about the time I was on tour and dealing with the disillusionment of that. While back at home things were getting out of hand and I couldn’t be there for anyone. So I started contemplating not going back”.
MJ Statue is a hazy confessional expressed through a melting pot of sound that might not make the party playlist that I probably wont attend anyway. But it’s the perfect experimental alternative rock song for soundtracking those thoughtful, private moments.
Words of Karla Harris