When Declan McKenna was 4 years old, his parents bought a new Toyota Previa. When asked by his sister, "Dec, what do you think of the car?" little Declan replied "It's very beautiful, and now I'm going to sing my new album." The fragment was recorded with the video recorder and now - 14 years later - functions as the opening of McKenna's actual debut album. Too good to be true? Check this out: as
… a 15-year-old student from Hertfordshire, he already played at the Glastonbury Festival and wrote his debut single Brazil. A deceptively sunny song, which, however, is about the allocation of the World Cup to Brazil while a large part of the inhabitants live in great poverty. Like his second single, Paracetamol, is inspired by the suicide of a young transgender person. And all this without becoming depressed for a second. (2006). Believe it to be true and go see Declan McKenna in a small room while you can. (RME)more
