Kevin Mayfield
Steinman power ballads. Bombast in Berlin.
The Frog in the Kettle
Kevin Mayfield was born in Asbury Park — Springsteen's hospital, a fact he treats as prophecy — failed three startups, heard Kraftwerk mixed into New Order in a Kreuzberg club one 2 AM in 2012, and never flew home. The music started the night he discovered he'd overpaid his German car insurance by €700 a year for a decade: by 2:14 AM he'd written seven minutes of orchestral fury — full choir, wailing guitar — about the deadline to switch providers. Printer jams get Satan. The analytics song gets ancient Greek. Every feeling arrives at maximum size, and he scores it that way.
"Wagner is too important to leave to the Germans."
"Better to burn bright and be forgotten than to dim responsibly and never have been remembered at all."
Discography
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