Mk.gee's latest, "Are You Looking Up," is his first offering of the year. It is an airy track that drifts in as a question murmured into the ether. 2025 felt like a thrilling fever dream, a work that rewired our collective understanding of alternative pop. Is it rhetorical? A plea? Or perhaps just the newest layer in the complex, ultimately unfathomable landscape, Mk. Gee?
Built atop a bed of soft-focus synths and an elastic synth-bass line that seems to defy the clock, "Are You Looking Up" is both feathery and human-heavy all at once, as if Mk. gee is wrestling with the give-and-take of existential wonder. His voice, soaked in spectral reverb, floats slightly above the mix, asking not just the title's question but too many unspoken ones to count. Sonically, it inhabits the same woozy, dreamlike fifth dimension as Two Star and the Dream Police but swaps out its gnarliness for something more viscous, like watching the sky change colors in slow motion.
Lyrically, Mk. Gee builds on his gift for evocative minimalism. He says enough to make you feel something but leaves enough room for you to fill in the blanks. 2025 is about pausing, looking up, and seeing what's next. And if this song is any indication, we should all be doing just that.