Manchester’s brash and brooding Bite Marcus, formerly a member of the Brighton, UK Post-Punkers Grasshopper from 2012 to 2020, drops an ‘official’ DIY video for his first single “The Introspect.”
Be on the lookout for a January 4, 2024 ‘new single’ announcement in anticipation of a 2024 debut LP.
A glittering, slightly Baroque strain of rich and dark orchestral synth-pop, reminiscent of Marc Almond and The The, where the tormented and passioned vibrato, worthy of a refined crooner, strikes up, “The Introspect” is introduced by attention-grabbing flashy swirling string blasts, to lead into moody, thrilling bass oscillations and tapping and clicky-clacky percussions, underlying an alluringly intense dramatic vocal delivery, shifting powerful baritone broods with a haunting layering of ghostly echoes, whilst a shimmering pulsing solemn poignant array of icy shivering and angsty brassy synth orchestrations wander and sway mercurially with the poetry, humor, and self-awareness of Bite Marcus’s story.
The DIY visuals shuffle ‘alive’ archival imagery, from BM’s parents, Chris Tomsett / Innerstrings, Esme Whitehead and Kurtis Hall, taken between 1999–2023 with a groovy dance sequence filmed last week to sync with the biographical soundtrack. Vibrant, lysergic, and immersive, a unique combination of vintage photographs, ‘handwritten’ lyrics, home movies, and murky stained glass hues, shapeshift a modern performance to deliver a wonderfully introspective and touching insight into life.
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