Stream: Mehro, ‘Parasite’

Kevin Bronson on April 26th, 2022

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Twenty-three-year-old Manhattan Beach artist Mehro is ascending the pop stratosphere like a chemtrail. He still sings like nobody ever told him to speak up. He still says the right things. His voice is still as pure as snow, if it ever snowed on the Westside. And, not always the case in the pop world, his confessionals sound like confessionals.

Driven by a floral acoustic guitar, his new single, “Parasite,” the follow-up to “Like You’re God,” is exactly what the title suggests: the acknowledgement of, and an attempt to purge, something ugly.

“‘Parasite’ is the story of how something so grotesque can appear to be so beautiful; a toxic relationship that feeds off the hope of the unsuspecting heart,” he says. “I wanted to create a sonic world that embodied the illusion of that deceptive beauty, and to tell that story uncompromised. To me this is alchemy.”

||| Stream: “Parasite”