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WHO IS MADADKIN?

DECADENT PLUS MUSIC

Each release raises the same question: what genre is this?

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Rock, pop, blues, jazz, electronic, theatrical, avant-garde — the music moves across all of them, but belongs fully to none. The usual labels don’t hold.

The answer, gradually, has become clearer.

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Madadkin works within decadence — and against it.

The songs emerge from a civilisation in decline, and reflect that condition from the inside. This is not commentary from a distance, but participation under tension. The result is a form that absorbs multiple genres without settling into any of them.

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Decadent Plus Music.

A music shaped by excess, fragmentation, and technological saturation — but also by resistance to them. A music made within the system, often with minimal means, yet directed critically at the world that produces it.

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If we speak of the Information Age, or the AI Age, these are only surface descriptions. Beneath them lies a longer movement — a slow expansion of decadence, now reaching a point of visibility.

Madadkin is the work of Paul David Adkin Sherwin — composer, writer, and multimedia artist.

The project explores themes of alienation, injustice, power, belief, and technological control. Its tone moves between irony and seriousness, clarity and distortion.

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The aim is not consistency, but range.

To amuse. To unsettle. To provoke. To fascinate.

Madadkin’s work does not belong to a single tradition. It moves through forms — post-rock, post-punk, experimental, narrative — without remaining fixed in any of them.

 

It is best understood not as a genre, but as a position.

A voice emerging from within the system, attempting to see it clearly.

 

 

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