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Apparently Mark McGuire has been around for a long while - I’d never listened to him until a month ago when I came across a few tracks from Living with Yourself. The album is heavily instumental yet deeply personal ”focus[ing] on [McGuire’s] family, early friendships and the problems that inevitably develop through years of knowing someone.” The most captivating aspect of the album are the recordings he laces into his tracks. Taken by his father, they span between 1991-1998. In “Brothers (for Matt)” Mark is 5. It’s a simple and familiar father-son exchange that pulls you in and leaves you curious about the boy and his father - the dad’s past and the boy’s future. It made me reflect on all the little details of growing up that I don’t actually remember, but I’m pretty sure happened.
