I’ve always been drawn towards pop rock music that relies on a more softer, gritty atmosphere instead of booming, over produced arrangements. Aidan McMahon’s ‘Walking Song’ is dark, but it places a light at the end of the tunnel that it builds towards throughout its five minute runtime. It’s remarkably mature, describing a longing for a past through both a lyricism and an atmosphere that’s baked in nostalgia, while understanding that this fixation leads one to miss out on the today.
Aidan has the feeling of melancholic nostalgia captured to a tee on his ‘Walking Song’. It’s more about delving into nostalgia, but realising that the past can never be relived. Aidan is a full-time high school student who writes, composes, produces, mixes, masters, and performs all of his music on his own. For an emerging artist like himself, the grittiness of the production, the poignancy of the lyricism, and the overall synthesis of a feeling makes him someone to look forward to.