9 th of September is a day of celebration for unique USA musician MEHRO –
as their album WEIRDTHROB has been released! Number 9 is important to MEHRO… As this unique album has 9 songs as well…Let‘s look what a word WEIRDTHROB means... "weird throb" can have many causes, including common ones like stress, anxiety, caffeine intake, or physical exertion... but how it connects with album's songs? Apparently it connects and very deeply...
Each album’s song has its deep philosophical poetic and metaphorical meaning as well:
Lifesaver
Plastic tires
Sewers
Autoerotica
You’re so pretty
Lady Parts and Mannequins
Sex Fiend
Dead Internet
Sepia Tones
What kind of emotions are leading accepting this wonderful gift created by MEHRO, first of all Euphoria, then Joy...
And other synonimes, as CATHARSIS, can help describe MEHRO‘s miracle, MEHRO‘s music‘s miracle.
Each album’s song has its charm and depth, but I love to listen to SEWERS so much… Sewers can be a metaphor of overthinking too:
Trapped in the sewers of my mind
Mad at the future in hindsight
Is it hopeless?
Is it broken?
Is it over?
The distance
Living between us
Is torture
Trapped in the sewers of my mind
The past hasn’t passed me, it’s by my side
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVVebJw_NeE
MEHRO’s songs are analyzing depths of human feelings… with all their ups and downs, with euphoria(s) and heartbreak(s)… It is like a play between eros and tanatos as well…
As each MEHRO's song has its own growing with the beginning, growing, culmination and the end...
Your kiss changed me
Chrysalis, butterflying
A fist to the face
A wish that you wish you didn't make
But can you blame me? (Plastic tires)
And one of the most important album’s songs is SEPIA TONES, dedicated to the late musician Elliott Smith, who's life ended as a tragedy.
Mehro has shared on their Instagram, that Sepia Tones was written in the back alley of the regent theatre in downtown los angeles about 1 hour before i stepped on stage for Elliott Smith’s tribute concert on August 6th, 2024. The song came pouring out, like dirty water from a rusty pipe.
There is no doubt in my mind that that night, with more than a thousand people gathered to celebrate the artist’s life, I experienced something necromantic. It resonated so deeply with me, that it felt like a gift. My hope is it resonates with those that it is meant to.
I want to confirm, that MEHRO's songs have a therapeutical impact as well. They are healing, the words are healing, healing all the fears, healing depression as well...
Hurts my eyes, blows my mind Magnified a thousand times Moving near, conscience is clear All my fears, fighting tears, dissapear
I want end this review with MEHRO's words:
if you've made it this far, let this message remind you of your infinite power. you are capable of anything. you are worthy of anything. you are enough. and everything that worries you will one day go away.