Anil Macwan – Queen City Sounds and Art

AnilMacwan3_sm — Anil Macwan, photo courtesy the artist

Anil Macwan draws heavily on a broad swath of 80s synth pop music for his single “Champagne Problems.” Using that palette of sounds from synths and drum machines with processed guitar Macwan gives us a song about how everyone’s problems probably seem quaint to someone who has it relatively worse but how we all live our own lives and our everyday struggles are unique to our life circumstances and it’s just inhumane to expect people to have to imagine someone else’s life experience in daring to have an emotional reaction to events in their own. It’s a song that in the end encourages people to live in the moment regardless of what their life might be like and to feel in that moment and live through it and honor one’s feelings. Sure, Macwan sounds like he is dipping into the vibe of early Talk Talk, Depeche Mode and Howard Jones but what elevated all of those artists beyond disposable pop was an inventiveness in composing electronic pop songs with a root in richness of feeling and that is true of Macwan’s song as well. Watch the video for “Champagne Problems” on YouTube and follow Macwan at the links below.