Marconi is an indie-rock five-piece crafting majestic and melancholy pop. Imagine old-guard standards like Roy Orbison, Scott Walker, and David Bowie engaging old-soul contemporaries like Neko Case, Spoon, The Walkmen, and Department of Eagles. Familiar chord relations dive together through winding phrases; sections combine and vacillate between ease and tension. The debut album Minutes to Manifest Destiny finds individual themes of isolation and relocation party to studies in territorial expansion; each song extends personal moments and periods into metaphors for the quest to achieve some measure of great and summary fulfillment.
Consider “Chaise Longue” from Minutes to Manifest Destiny
