Ardour, stress, and uncooked fervor coalesce in Mick Flannery’s “Younger,” an emotionally charged fever dream born from our innermost depths. The newest single off the Irish singer/songwriter eighth album ‘Goodtime Charlie’ is a young tempest: The soundtrack to our personal intimate reckonings.

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Tright here’s a deep ache emanating out of Mick Flannery’s newest single.

It’s the fiery pulse of a turbulent soul; the churn of deep-seated unrest that refuses to bend or break. Ardour, stress, and uncooked fervor coalesce in “Younger,” an emotionally charged fever dream born from our innermost depths. Heartfelt and heated, that is the soundtrack to our personal inner reckoning: A young tempest we will by no means absolutely subdue.

Adolesce, wrestle with the considered being ineffective
Wander by the fog by the forest
Occur on a creature at midnight
And the beast is hungry

Determine this one, try this little
tough-boy look along with your jaw
Put a bit competent in your stroll
No don’t look again, preserve your head up,
breathe, look it within the eye

Atwood Journal is proud to be premiering “Younger,” the charming and churning third single taken off Mick Flannery’s forthcoming eighth studio album, Goodtime Charlie (out September 15, 2023 by way of Oh Boy Data).

The report arrives two years after  Flannery’s critically acclaimed 2021 album In The Sport with Susan O’Neill, which reached the No. 2 spot on the Official Albums Chart in Eire, beating out artists like Rodrigo, Metallica, and Kanye West within the course of. It was additionally the highest-selling impartial album in Eire and received 2021’s Selection Awards and a couple of RTE Folks Awards.

Whereas he’s solely three singles into the album marketing campaign, it’s beginning to really feel like Goodtime Charlie simply may greatest its predecessor. Following the report’s roaring, rollicking title monitor “Goodtime Charlie” and the softer, sweeter piano-driven acoustic ballad “Morning Rain,” the smoldering “Younger” is a spirited, heavy anthem with ambient undertones that highlights the Irish people rock singer/songwriter’s voice, his poetic writing fashion, and his capacity to go away an viewers completely breathless.

Flannery rises out of softer verses right into a soul-stirring refrain that shines with gorgeous feeling as he himself appears to give up to the tune, spilling his coronary heart out in a charming and cathartic reverie:

Younger and prepared,
younger will testify into the evening,
“come get me”
All about you, each shred of ache,
felt once more, you mark me

“I had a scat vocal for this tune and I wished to stick to the syllables and phrase placement,” Mick Flannery tells Atwood Journal. “It proved tough. The tune is a collage of concepts in a manner, however is principally in regards to the arc of life, what one ought to do within the face of hazard, how one ought to carry themselves in life, and within the face of dying.”

“The choruses are a couple of willingness to struggle and the place it comes from. The tune means that, in younger individuals, aggression and opposition will be extra rooted in inner particular person struggles than a rational struggle in opposition to a perceived unsuitable on this planet.”

Altruist, every thing from comrade to populist
All of it starting in a thriller
Seeing by the attention of a needle
And considering makes considering so, the place am I although?
Do this little rat-race dance on the poor
Do this little tough-boy look along with your jaw
What’s your God’s identify? What’s your end-game
Why received’t you look me within the eye?

Younger and prepared, younger will testify into the evening, “come get me”
All about you, each shred of ache, felt once more, you mark me

You, you, you, the animal

Somewhat than attempt to tamp down or quell his personal inside turmoil, Mick Flannery embraces it, channeling that emotional hearth right into a musical blaze.

Visceral, susceptible, uncompromising, and unapologetic, “Younger” is a panoramic show of inside stress and placing, resounding affirmation of Flannery’s famend skills – to not point out his deeply evocative and gristly voice. Stream “Younger” completely on Atwood Journal, and keep tuned for extra from Flannery’s upcoming eighth album.

Goodtime Charlie is out September 15, 2023 by way of Oh Boy Data!

Atrophy, understanding that the tip would come for every thing
Occur on the creature within the forest
One final tough-boy look along with your jaw
Raise it up, present your throat to the claw
Really feel your heartbeat, breathe, look it within the eye

Younger and prepared,
younger will testify into the evening,
“come get me”
All about you, each shred of ache,
felt once more, you mark me

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