Marsy Mars’ is a composer and musician from London who releases new album ‘Our War and How We Won It’

‘Our War and How We Won It’ is the new album from ‘Marsy Mars’. Our War and How We Won It, his third and latest album, is a narrative-driven work; Mars’ music has been described in general as being like ‘a Dostoyevsky novel you can dance to’, and this record most epitomises that aphorism. It’s the tale of a tumultuous family unit during and after their rise to riches, and about one child in particular who defies the precedent around them and becomes a very different kind of person to those who raised him. This ‘domestic epic’ about the pains of loss and gain, and how a powerful spirit of goodness is formed in people, chimes in with Mars’ common themes of changing one’s stars and the longing for community. Marsy Mars is a composer and musician from London. He operates by a code of anonymity. Except where credited he composes, performs and produces everything on his records. Mars is the coiner of a style of music known as ‘Baroque-Hop’, which itself is based on a compositional style known as ‘counterpoint’. Formerly the preserve of the old masters of European art music, music made by counterpoint (or ‘contrapuntal music’) is […]