MOKITA and MIKE KINSELLA, “sleepwalking”
As you may have read numerous times in this blog over the last few years, Mokita (aka John-Luke Carter) is a singer/songwriter/producer from Nashville who uses songwriting to help figure out things that he has observed or encountered. His latest single, “sleepwalking”, is an acoustic collaboration with Mike Kinsella of the veteran alt.rock groups American Football and Owen. While you can hear tinges of country and folk styles in this one, it’s actually well-done acoustic and lyrical pop. “sleepwalking” is about being on one side of a relationship where you know you are just passing through. The other party knows it too, but you’re waiting for that person to snap you out of it, which isn’t going to happen, so self-realization invariably must take hold. Mokita echoes performers like Jackson Browne and The Eagles in his vocal in “sleepwalking”, which helps make what could be a heady subject sound very refreshing.
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