Pocket Lint, a musical project from Mark Heffernan, is difficult to fit within the boundaries of a single genre, and he doesn’t seem to be striving for that. Synthesizers, synth-pop, new wave atmosphere, indie guitars, vintage drum machines, and his own voice, these are the toolkit with which Mark creates small sonic sketches, moments frozen in music. The new single, ‘Amethyst Cameo’, is out on May 29, is already attracting attention with its remarkable story of how it came into being.

Nostalgia, Craftsmanship, Obsession

-PurpleMistress

The story of the single ‘Amethyst Cameo’ begins in the summer of 2020, on a balcony, with a sheet of sandpaper in his hands and a piece of Amethyst. Three weeks of stubborn work, mountains of purple dust, and palms worn to bleeding, all for the sake of learning to carve cameos by hand. In the end, the cameo never worked out. But a song did. That is the best metaphor for what it is about.

The obsessive need to create for the sake of the process itself, for that irresistible impulse that drives a person to do something with their head, their soul. Pocket Lint was born from precisely this gesture, from surrendering to the stone and immediately winning against the silence. I absolutely recommend everyone listen to ‘Amethyst Cameo’ and feel for themselves that sometimes the best thing you can do with an unrealised idea is to turn it into something else entirely. Highly recommend!