Having been under the name The King in Ely Street for a while and creating an E.P back in 2016, MARCELØ felt it was time to branch out and create his first release as a solo artist. The Brazilian, who’s based in London, has always been influenced by indie and folk rock and uses those influences to talk about taboo subjects like social alienation, greed, despair and the human condition.
Although the track is about the realities of war, it still has a chilled, reflective feel to it, with a mixture of ukulele and piano. MARCELØ is playing some live shows in February/March 2020 in South America and plans on releasing new music in the early stages of the new year so keep an eye out for this alternative music as this solo artist isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.
MARCELØ discusses I Went Down:
“I Went Down is a song that predicts a society’s point of view in the future, where we’re all looking back and realizing the things that went wrong and got lost along the way. Everybody is changing by modern life, and it’s bringing irreversible consequences. Dependence on electronics, egocentricity generated by social networks, lack of environmental awareness are all behaviors that keep bringing us down, and will eventually lead us into the dark times. I Went Down is a song about you and me. It’s a song about what we are doing wrong and what we are not doing right about ourselves”
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