New Music Friday: Puppylove
A Flowering of Scientific Work
The marauding face of a pelican, a can of red paint and an affronted man with a bluetooth headphone. In the Czech Republic, there’s a man who doesn’t know that he is a muse. Mason Hutchinson, the man behind Puppylove, writes a snapshot of life as we feel it, contextualizing everyday life through a lens of emotion. Using, for example, a misinterpreted interaction with a Czech man wearing a bluetooth headset to inspire a dadaist narrative on interpersonal connection that can be found in the song Tiptoeing in the Red.
Inspired by the world around him, Hutchinson captures the push and pull of heartache and joy in his music. Painfully honest, Hutchinson channels his innocence into the character of Puppylove by combining observations of the world around him with abstract emotion. Designed to be a representation of new love and overwhelming emotions, Puppylove sings fearlessly on coming of age.
“I didn't want to hold myself back from sounding… naive or maybe childish or you know, anything like that. If I had a feeling I wanted to encourage myself to just feel that feeling and put it into the song how it is,” Hutchinson says.
Spidery guitar and gentle vocals swirl around Hutchinson’s compositions in a slurry of key changes and complexity. Hutchinson’s voice is warm and grounding, contrasting against the fluid rhythms of his songs.
A snapshot of liminality, Hutchinson’s music shines a light onto emotions trampled down by time and grief. Hutchinson answers the question that we’re too afraid to ask ourselves.
“Do I actually even want to be better? Or do I just want someone to see me for who I am?”
A sentiment I’m sure that even the Czech man behind Hutchinson’s Tiptoeing in the Red would understand. A Flowering of Scientific Work is up on Bandcamp, now.