A singer songwriter from Woodstock, New York, Marc Delgado tells the story of getting caught up in a rut where every day seems to be exactly the same as the last.
Delgado accompanies his worn-down lament with guitar and a steady drum beat, with a languid resignation in his voice as he relates his story.
Delgado uses extracts from a “radio show” to tell the story of someone who’s heard it all before and, while wanting to get on with life, isn’t quite sure how to go about it. It’s a great effect, sounding something like a far away voice coming over a car stereo speaker, scratchy and disjointed, the listener catching snatches every so often of the DJ’s patter (“it’s a song by Elliott Smith”).
Speaking about the track, Marc Delgado said,
“Stuck On the Radio is about a recurring dream I used to have when I was living in Sacramento, Ca. I was on the Business 80 Freeway in my underwear & it was maybe dawn or maybe dusk. I was doing a lot of drugs at the time & every day was exactly the same it seemed”.
The DJ is going through the same things as the singer; they’re in a dead-end job, working the middle of the night shift, hopelessly going through the motions, with nobody tuning in. It’s a realisation that life won’t be any different unless we actually make a concerted effort to change.
Find out more about Marc Delgado and his music online on his official website, Facebook, Instagram, and Bandcamp. Irish fans can catch Marc on his ever tour in Ireland this August.
‘Stuck On The Radio’ is out this Friday, July 11, through Vfib Recordings. You can get a taste of what it sounds like below.
