Review Fix Exclusive: Mike Edel Talks ‘Go With You’

Review Fix chats with singer/songwriter and drummer Mike Edel to find out what powered his newest single.

Review Fix: How did you get involved in music?

Mike Edel: I started by playing drums in a Blink 182 cover band AND at church. Probably a healthy balance

Review Fix: What are your influences?

Edel: I’ve loved The War On Drugs, The National and Sufjan Stevens’ records the last few years. I’m influenced by great songs and stuff that sounds honest and personal yet universal. I am somewhat ashamed that I listened to lots of John Mayer early on.

Review Fix: What is special about the Canadian music scene from Seattle?

Edel: It feels normal for a musician to be connected to so many different people in different geographical regions and I’m currently living this truth by residing in Seattle.

Review Fix: What makes your brand of music special?

Edel: Not trying to be special makes it special.

Review Fix: How was “Go With You? written?

Edel: It was written on an acoustic guitar with these sort of open power chords, and the song existed that way for awhile. The lyrics came fairly quickly, but to record this song sonically was a bit more of a puzzle, and it ended up getting synths and guitars getting ditched!

Review Fix: What is your biggest strength as a musician?

Edel: I’m pretty well-rounded and like to do many different things.

Review Fix: Why do you think people should enjoy it?

Edel: The melody is so good, I still really love it. And it’s about change and crossing thresholds and that seems to be a very real thing to everyone all the time.

Review Fix: What was it like to work with Chris Walla?

Edel: One time he wore a trench coat and sunglasses in the studio, and I thought we had an intruder. It was like that.

Review Fix: How do you want your music to affect people?

Edel: I want them to feel things and connect the music to their own experience

Review Fix: What makes this album different from your previous work?

Edel: It’s so much better both sonically and lyrically.

Review Fix: What are your goals for the rest of 2018?

Edel: I’ll be touring a bit, and one of my goals is to dive off of as many high dive’s as possible before winter hits. Then maybe release another song.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Edel: Just more high dives and more songs.

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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