Irish singer-songwriter turned producer Qwerty Mick has followed up his promising debut ‘Google My Symptoms’ with serious aplomb. ‘If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now’ is a steller 6-track that twists and turns, looking closely both Qwerty’s personal frustrations and the societal issues in his homeland. ‘Graffiti Literature’ jumps off the page on this record, and takes lessons from King Krule, Cosmo Pyke and Connan Mockasin to name but a few.
The artist says of his new release –
“The EP name came from an old advertising campaign that consisted of these huge billboards that all said ‘If You Lived Here You’d Be Home by Now’, in an attempt to sell expensive houses to people while they were on their long commute home from work. When I was writing the EP, I was commuting 3+ hours a day in total to and from college and it was a large chunk of your day to be spending fully mindless. The name also worked as a metaphor for learning to be content with where one is currently at in their life. Though much of the EP is about a frustration with the state Ireland’s in, it’s also just as much about a personal frustration within, and learning to feel at home with where you’re at at all times.”
