Oh joy, Nexus Music Blog loves Love and Confusion!
A little sampling of their review below:
“With a toe-tapping beat and head-bopping melodic arrangement, Makar wraps you in a kaleidoscopic blanket floating in a cinematic soundscape.”
ooo lala !
Check out their entire review below
https://nexusmusicblog.com/track-of-the-week-love-and-confusion-makar/
True Skateboard Magazine wrote a pithy little blurb about I Want to Be Loved.
A quirky and fun music video ‘ I Want To Be Loved ‘ by husband & wife duo MAKAR, who’ve been dropping literate, blues-infused piano pop / indie rock gems since 2002
Check it out
https://truesk8boardmag.com/makar-dropped-a-new-single/
Check out our delicious review from Roadie Music!
A choice quote below
“The new release will inevitably expand its name to the most inhospitable corners, because “Love And Confusion” is SENSATIONAL!”
Wow. Thank you so much!
Read the whole review below:
We received a cool review of our song Love & Confusion on With Guitars. (I mean everything is better with guitars, duh!)
A little taste below
“With the release of their latest single “Love and Confusion,” the band ramps up their positive vibes for a mesmerizing release of feel-good energy and vocal harmonies and contagious vibes. Right when Andrea’s vocals comes in, the flavorful pop notes were noticeable right from the start.”
You can read the entire review below:
https://www.withguitars.com/297555-2/
Read our interview in Lost in the Manor.
We talk specifically about our song Love and Confusion.
“Your latest track is 'Love and Confusion'. Can you share with us the background of its creation and did any unusual things happen during its creation?
Andrea: I know there’s really no resemblance to this but when I started this song I was listening to Love and Happiness by Al Green over and over again. I mean it sounds nothing like that song, it’s just the longing in it. It’s my little Indie nod to Rev. Green. I just love the way he begins the song. He whispers in your ear, sets your soul on edge, talking just to you, telling you a truth. I like the beginning because it feels so quiet and yet so powerful.
What surprises me with this song’s creation is that it alludes to other songs we’ve written and I wasn’t even aware of it at the time. The lyric, “the sky is falling down” connects with another song on the album, Devil Don’t Do Me In lyric – “Do I give into depression or does the sky simply fall on me?” Emotions always threaten to burst through and are frowned upon in the day-to-day grind.
It’s funny, I only see all these intersections with in hindsight. Even in our second album, Funeral Genius in the title track, I wrote “the sky below is always falling a little.” And the sky is that feeling when depression starts to circle and you feel if only you fight hard enough you can hold up the sky and push back the depression. I tend to write about the same things unknowingly – insomnia, depression, anxiety, wanting to belong.
In the recording of Love and Confusion, it became a very different song. It was angrier before (https://youtu.be/sGHqsKfA4bo). I had this desire to play it in a higher octave and in those higher octaves, Mark and I found all these different harmonies I could sing as well as the ooooo in the bridge. I can’t imagine the song without the oooo.
While I like the original version, the final version on the album with all the high / low harmonies and the high energy made the song take off. Add a little timbales and the song transformed.”
Read the rest of the interview below
https://www.lostinthemanor.co.uk/blog/interview/december2021/musosoup/makar
Another awesome review of our single - Love and Confusion - from Indie Dock Music Blog.
“The single 'Love And Confusion' is the main tune from this record and it really has that amazing energy and extraordinary melody that fascinates us with its simplicity and memorability.”
Click on the link below to read the rest of the review
http://indiedockmusicblog.co.uk/?p=9583
Makar's third official video - I Want to Be Loved - from our latest album, Fancy Hercules!
Video was written, acted and directed by Makar. This video was inspired by by Jay Williams' children's book Petronella, illustrated by Friso Henstra. Enjoy! :-)
We took some liberties! Beware the Squid Monster!
MAKAR is honored to be performing in the New York City Marathon on Sunday, November 5, 2017, starting at 10:35 am.
We will be singing and playing our hearts out, cheering on the runners on the corner of 11th St and 48th Ave, in Long Island City, Queens!!!!!
