Muletonic

Muletonic is the music project of Australian songwriter and poet Alaric Jones. Alaric writes protest songs and songs of whimsy and wordplay. Songs that take in the natural world and social disorder, from tyranny to the life cycle of bees (Alaric is also a beekeeper). His poet sensibilities keep a focus on the lyric, while weaving in a musical thread that is inspired by other poet-songsmiths such as David Berman, Elliott Smith, Bill Callahan, Nick Drake, and of course, Leonard Cohen. Alaric’s 2023 single “This is what we chose (spotify)” draws on imagery of the bushfires which ravage the Australian landscape every year, and which are getting worse as the world heats up, earning Alaric the epithet “Climate Cohen”. The single received airplay in the UK’s Redifolk radio and on Irish local radio. It is the first song on Alaric’s EP, “The Present Race”

“These songs, some of them, might be dealing with heavy issues. But I believe that at the bottom of the pit of despair, underneath all the mud and slime, there is a little door, and behind that door there is a little room which is where all the really really good jokes are kept”. – Alaric