A Newcastle-based musician who's been playing music for years, Mike Horbacz recently turned his creative focus to a solo endeavour under the Horby moniker.
Geared towards the rockier, pop-punk aesthetics of the pop spectrum, Horby has been busy in the studio recording a number of new songs, with 'Sing Like Hell' the first release from these sessions.A track about following your dreams in spite of outside influences, 'Sing Like Hell' features crisp, punchy alt-rock production married to a confident, lustrous, glossy pop-punk melody that's underpinned by yearning vocals which heighten the angsty feels that oscillate between unabashed pleading and honest, unflinching introspection.
"'Sing Like Hell' is a song about reflection and coming to own the fact that I'm not really any good at anything else," Horby says.
"I guess it's a song about defeat like the reality of never making it as a musician, but it's also kinda hopeful.
"I was just going through a time when all my mates and the people my age around me were getting married and had career jobs and I was just no good at any of that.
"It really wasn't good to be holding myself to other people's ideals and I really felt like I needed to come full circle and do what I believe I do best. So that's how the song came about."
Ahead of the song's release on Friday (14 October), scenestr is thrilled to premiere 'Sing Like Hell' today. Enjoy.
