We recently featured Mortal Prophets for his powerful single, Stomp The Devil, so when we heard that the star had returned with, Born Under A Bad Sign, we couldn’t wait to listen and feed back!
Drawing us in with elegant keys and an immersive synthscape with cerebral nuance, Mortal Prophets opens the opus with artist John Beckmann‘s signature baritone vocal and the moody, self-referential lyrics, “I was born under a bad sign, been down since I began to crawl…”
We form an immediate connection with the darker themes of the track, and the situational reality that the creator shares with vulnerability and intimacy.
We learn that Born Under A Bad Sign is the second track from Mortal Prophets‘ epic album, Dealey Plaza Blues. Of Dealey Plaza Blues’ tracks, seven are covers, and three are original.
Born Under A Bad Sign is described as a track that “virtually glistens with despair, [with] Beckmann’s lurking, almost disembodied baritone casting a steady if lone presence against a hallucinatory background, is to find yourself enveloped in a trance of sorts, one that doesn’t really concern itself with provenance.”
We appreciate how John Beckmann creates with the wider construct of Mortal Prophets, and have added Born Under A Bad Sign to our New Music Spotlight playlist, whilst we continue to stream the entire Mortal Prophets‘ album, Dealey Plaza Blues, in full!