Mike Stocksdale - 'Wishes and Wants'
LA based musician Mike Stocksdale achingly reflects on the difference between ‘Wishes and Wants’ on his powerful indie folk single.
‘Wishes and Wants’ opens with dusty intricate guitar-work before Mike Stocksdale’s wistful vocal comes in setting a melancholic and foreboding scene in the poignant opening lyrics, ‘I wanna break out of my skin, I am a prisoner in these cells’. Stocksdale keeps up an urgent pace as he pulls his listener through bleak and despondent lyrics but he introduces moving, sparkling tones to juxtapose some of the despair in the track.
While there’s a sense of solitude and loneliness in the track, but the hook is familiar and there’s a warmth here that comes from the security of shared pains. Through his music, Stocksdale tells stories with earthy bones that are relatable, heartfelt and full of yearning.
Words of Karla Harris