GROWING PAINS
The landscape between ado-lescence and adulthood can be strange and difficult terrain. In that uncertain limbo, childhood is in retreat – sometimes romanticised for its innocence and joy – and an unknown life beyond teenage dreams is ahead as indistin-guishable shapes cloaked in shadow.
It is a few tentative steps into that future where Merk (Mark Perkins) positions his reflective second album, Infinite Youth.
The young man is full of promise but plagued by uncertainty – “nothing can slow me down, I want to know who God is … doubts have changed me”. He ponders the great mysteries – “feels like I’m just getting older, always spinning faster” – on and takes stock of the present – “all of our friends are sadder than they were last year” – on .
