The best thing about music is that it can make you feel so many things. Things another person has no chance of making you ever feel. For some it’s good, for others it’s bad. Personally, I don’t see it as a bad thing. There’s no disappointment within music. If you want to be disappointed, just go outside. Create something of your own, at least only you can take the blame and be responsible.

Touching on creating your own world, music helps with this in so many ways. When you go to a gig it makes you feel so good and so alive. A sense of euphoria just takes over and nothing matters to you. When you hear your favourite song being sung by your favourite singer in the world right in front of you, there is honestly no better feeling. It’s like all the reasons as to why you’re still breathing come alive as you witness it. You create what you want when you go to a gig. You could probably meet the best person in the world there. You have a mutual love for the band you are about to see- that alone could be the basis of any good friendship. The sea of people moving and singing along is such an amazing thing to witness and be part of. The world you create when you fall asleep at night whilst listening to your favourite band or just a song that you cannot imagine ever not hearing- nobody can ever take that from you, ever. It’s one of the very few things that no matter what, nobody will ever rob from you. It’s yours and yours alone. You don’t need to explain it to anyone and you don’t have to let anyone in. Sometimes you have to keep certain things to yourself. Sometimes you don’t feel the need to share anything with anyone. There’s nothing wrong with secrets, there’s nothing wrong with creating your own world.

With this odd introduction out of the way, I shall attempt to make it relate to the electro sounds of Blackbird Blackbird.

Mikey Maramag, formely known as Bye Bye Blackbird creates wonderful electro music that with first listen, just locks you in. I love music that, as strange as it sounds (mainly because I can’t bloody swim) makes you feel like you are rising above out of the sea and just floating. I think this is why I adore Warpaint and a hell of a lot of psychedelic music. That feeling that you are just floating away (or even into) something creates a wave of freedom that is sometimes hard, and rare to find. I think it’s why I struggle to actually put into words why I love certain bands because of how they make me feel.

Instantly, Blackbird Blackbird’s music comforts you. Even if you don’t need it, but you cannot deny that sometimes you just need a cuddle. His music, you can feel, is created with such love and passion. Dramatic description- it just feels like you are being surrounded by Angels or something when you listen to it. You feel protected, the music is so angelic. It’s a delicate kind of electro that surrounds you with such peace. Not a lot can do this, or have done it. If Spiritualized did electro, it would sound like this.