Album Review: Mayor of Meeker, Songs About Isolation Written and Recorded in Isolation

During the pandemic, I’ve seen a lot of memes (the official artistic medium of 2020) that give saucy little winks to the deep despair that has become part of all our lives. I’d gotten so used to chuckling at stuff that I scroll by, I was genuinely surprised at how jarring it was to hear someone sing earnestly about it.

While Mayor Of Meeker’s album Songs About Isolation Written and Recorded In Isolation  does have a lot of irony and humour, its best moments come when that smiling mask slips off. Songs like Horny Boy and Lord, How I Miss Getting High are great ‘laugh through the pain’ 2020 tunes. But it’s songs like Thank The Government and A Faster Way To Feel Alone that truly live in the bitterness and sorrow that we’ve all tried so hard to ignore. Even the little meditations on food like Salmon and Bread were fun and didn’t outstay their welcome.

This album was a piece of pandemic art that I didn’t know I needed. Hearing a person with a guitar tell me how they really feel about this whole awful mess gave me “all the feels” in a way that a meme never has.

Songs About Isolation Written and Recorded in Isolation was released October 30, 2020.
Listen to it here.