“Go big or go home/I pray that you get in the zone,” declares MC/singer/producer
Left Boy on his electro mission statement Left Boy’s Coming. His debut album,
Permanent Midnight, certainly goes big, not just in terms of its musical power and
scope but its subject matter. For all its dancefloor impact, epitomised by first single
Get It Right, it’s a deeply personal and revealing album about juggling the competing
demands of career, hedonism and fatherhood.
Left Boy is Ferdinand Sarnitz, a 24-year-old Austrian based in Brooklyn. Over the
past couple of years, he has climbed from obscurity to festival slots and millions
of YouTube views with a potent blend of candour, charisma and chutzpah. Now
Permanent Midnight, named after Jerry Stahl's 1995 autobiographical book about
a heroin-addicted screenwriter, takes his songwriting in surprising new directions.
“Permanent Midnight is a beautiful and powerful term that resonates with this album.”
he says. “Its the neverending party, the seemingly inescapable darkness of doubts
and fears, and night is also simply the time during which this album was created.”
As he raps on the autobiographical Lullabye, “I w...
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