Mr. Soden
Dublin, Ireland’s Mr. Soden, oka Lukas Soden, makes spirited & sentimental songs that are strummed from those typically more protected places & guarded sections of the heart. Presenting us with a premiere look & listen to the lyric video for “Angst”, Lukas expresses those bouts of doubt about situations that seem like sure fire things that are often refuted by our own overactive self-conscientious impulses of over-thinking through everything. Mr. Soden exhibits a kind of nervous tendency that many folks have where the feeling of inadequacy in the company of others spawns a sort of inexplicable insecurity & uncertainty. This idea is depicted through sad strums that allude to the awkwardness that will help many of us feel like there are others that are stuck in the self-shrugging zone.
Mr. Soden’s minimalist lyric video for “Angst” is a song for our generation & era. The ADHD obsessive tendencies are heard in a kind of hyper-drive where instant attraction is marred by the chorus reiterations of “I know I don’t know, I know I don’t know, what to say to you…” Those pits of immediate self-defeat are stumbled in where Lukas takes the listener/viewer down that melancholy rabbit hole where misgivings rule the order of the evening/day (no matter how inaccurate those kneejerk reactions may be). “Angst” is a song for our time, made for anyone who has ever found their own insecure anxieties preventing them from pursuing the healthy relationships & life they would like to live. Mr. Soden takes these familiar bedroom pop motifs to a deeper level of reflective consciousness.
Mr. Soden penned the following exclusive introduction to the single & lyric video for “Angst” with the following reflections:
I wrote the song “Angst” right before I turned 20. Around this time I was worried about carrying my teenage angst into my adult life. On top of that I was very preoccupied with what people thought of me, and I was immensely aware and self-conscious of how my actions reflected my personality. The song is basically an account of my worries in hyperbole.
Personally, I’m a big fan of lyric videos. I think it’s nice to have something to look at, to keep you entertained, but then to also be able to learn the words at the same time. The video of the sky is just a shot out of my bedroom window, and the footage in the pink circle is just something I found that looked interesting.
