The stark intensity — struck by the fire flicked from a lighter and set aside the despondent droning of the voice in the back of your head —this Causeway Coast contemporary encapsulates, embodies and revives the true sense of the word, ‘music.’
His name is Wohn.
The dark, yet playful, grunge exuberance is on full display in his latest single, ‘Refuse, Relapse,’ extensively taking stock of the forlorning feeling of desperate despondency alcoholism often bestows on an individual, endlessly fuelling the existential conundrums which occasiaonlly darken our minds at some point in our short lives.
The delicate whirlpooling of guitars and searing sincerity of a voice unapologetic supplies a sense of justified hopelessness, chronicling the deadly, draining toll of anxiety and depression one faces while depending on the bottle.
“Sure, nothing... nothing... nothing matters.’
Wohn’s wonderful way of intrinsically, yet naturally, infiltrating the psyche of an angry, yet abraised, individual lusting listlessly and philosophically for the honest answers is a way unprecedented, organically raised to portray the stark honesty of the rage, confusion and hysteria alcoholism reaps across all sexes, all creeds, all generations. This revelation of lyrics is soon juxtaposed by an incredible crescendo of guitar strings — both acoustic and electric — merging an interlude of intense longing, yearning and anticipation, fiercely connoting that for anyone coping with an abhorrent addiction that there is always hope. "Music has always been my own way of
coping with negative mental health, and I
hope my work helps people struggling with
mental illness know that, although it's tough,
there's always hope." - Wohn.
The gritty, grafted and often mysterious complexity of this young man and his work will most soon cement itself in the upper echelons of music history, and hold firm in the test against time.
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