Auckland multi-instrumentalist Mark Perkins (ex-Fazerdaze, others) continues to gain a lot of global traction in his solo guise as Merk, and his latest album Infinite Youth was widely lauded in indie pop circles when released earlier this year. It was a release chock full of gentle existential insights into that age old conundrum of growing up / growing older, and how we’re all forced to deal with the inevitability of that (the alternative is not much chop, right?). ‘Laps Around the Sun’ is one such melancholic reflection, and it got a fair bit of ear time on my pod in 2021. It’s another one of those mellow choice cuts that won’t exactly have you throwing yourself around the mosh, but it does have a little bit of that earworm thing going on, and I think it offers a great snapshot of the album itself.
(Choice Kiwi Cuts 2021 is a series of blogposts which seek to highlight the best tracks released by New Zealand artists over the course of the calendar year. Not necessarily the “best” in any commercial sense, but those which have proven to be the best additions to this blogger’s music collection)
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