The resonate sound of The Mighty Avon Jnr is a visceral animal. Film maker (The Stars of the Underground, Boujeloud: Father of Skins, The Ex: Live in Dublin) and famed musician (The Babysnakes, Paranoid Visions) “Daragh McCarthy has created a one man band with a hundred members.”
Available now on vinyl mightyavonjnr.com and Tower records in Dublin. Influenced by Art writer John Berger where The Mighty Avon Jnr gets its title “Hold Everything Dear” in their highly anti-war sentiments there is a urn of dynamic sensitivity towards humanity and their sufferings.
The slow moving hypnosis of “Hold Everything Dear” wades in cryptic art writings and post war or the ever looming consciousness of disruption of war in man and woman like madmen scribing their symbols and idiosyncratic maelstrom of shifting music that attempts to elevate us all in the modern retelling of history.
Mighty Avon Jnr’s “Hold Everything Dear” mercurial release is a somber signifier of days that have been plowed and the urgency of heeding what art delivers as admonishment to war and civil unrest. “Hold Everything Dear” is cinematic and is indicative of Daragh McCarthy’s film making prowess. The musical angles that row in the ravine of incandescent lyrical wirings delve so deeply. The raspy finish of midnight vocals come to fruition in “Wedding Chair” as the dolesome angst burns a hole into the carpet.
Written by Hari Palacio
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