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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019ve been laboring over this child for ages and I\u2019m not saying I know what childbirth feels like but I do know what it feels like to finally get this album off my back\u201d so says Louisana newcomer Mikky Ekko of his debut LP Time<\/i> \u2013 which is set to hit the UK\u2019s not so sunny shores this week.<\/p>\n
And whilst the comparisons of debut albums and a first-born might cause some to dismissively shrug their shoulders \u2013 what can\u2019t be argued is the quality of the final result.<\/p>\n
As bold debuts go, Time <\/i>is up there with the best of 2015. An eclectic collection of 15 tracks that sit somewhere on the \u2018pop music\u2019 spectrum or in the words of Mikky; \u201cIf I had to label it, it would probably be \u2018Experimental Pop\u2019 because I was experimenting with a lot of different things and a lot of different genres on this album.\u201d<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s this diverse mix of sounds \u2013 whittled down from around 250 tracks \u2013 that make the 15-track debut so impressive. Flexing his proverbial muscles in the musical sense, Mikky\u2019s background is as diverse as one would expect.<\/p>\n
Growing up in rural America, he spent much of his youth singing in churches with his preacher father. Something that resulted in a love for acapella music; \u201cThat\u2019s actually how I taught myself to write because I couldn\u2019t really play an instrument and I liked the way I did things. A lot of what I did on the front end would be stomps and claps, and then I would sing the bass line and sing what I thought should be the guitar line or the string line. Eventually, I realised there was a style I had there that I really liked.\u201d<\/p>\n