Micko and his Mellotronics serve up Parked Car, the fourth single and another piquant slice of the upcoming album The Trinity (due out in June) and it’s another sharply-observed vignette, this time examining the furtive and illicit world of extra-marital affairs as conducted on the back seats of discreetly parked cars. Micko is drawing on the mores of a different time when young marriage was the norm and divorce was not an option, leading to feverish liaisons and stolen moments in the eponymous parked cars round the back of nightclubs.
Parked Car finds Micko in jaunty musical form, his bright and angular non-conformist alt-guitar rock thematically and stylistically suited to the subject matter – upbeat and a bit unsettling yet also kind of timeless. Micko ploughs his own musical furrow, unswayed by the prevailing fads or currents. Style, as they say, is never out of fashion. Lyrically, this is prime Micko territory. Parked Car is steeped in Kathy Come Home kitchen sink melodrama and gritty monochromatic realism. But he also captures the febrile atmosphere of forbidden love (“Now Cinderella Rockerfellas/There’s parking round the back I bet/If you can’t get away til 10.30/I’ll kill time, in that pub where we met …”). Micko does not write about sickly yearning or of imaginary worlds. He observes and transcribes the messy business of being human. Where some see roses, he finds thorns. This is not disposable pop music. This is social commentary without judgement set to toe-tapping tunes in the vein of the great observational English songwriters. It’s fresh, lean and vital stuff. We recommend it.
Parked Car by Micko and the Mellotronics is out now on Landline Records.
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