There’s a refreshing youthfulness to Trap Door, the new single from Circus Trees. You don’t tend to hear this kind of emotional angle within the scope of rock these days. The singer offers elegant contrast to this arrangement. She does it convincingly and with lyrical references that feel natural and honest.
It’s a fittingly dark narrative with difficult implications, amplified by a killer band arrangement full of effective progressive swings. It culminates in a final effective drop fit to bring an in concert audience to a fury. Stylistically it blends the worlds of fifth wave emo with a classic influences akin to Deftones and A Perfect Circle. We think it’s incredible.
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Have Fun, Make Friends. The sentiment means something new when it’s offered in the manner that presented on the new single from Ski Lift. It still means well, but perhaps with a debaucherous adapted angle meant for mischievous grown folks.
The vocal performance retains their good boy mirage in the vein of the vocals playful mod twang. It recalls early garage punk pioneers The Who with some updated modern jest in both color and sound. We’re into it.
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Wolfschmidt makes an emotional deposit on their new single ATM. There’s a violent tension to the music, as if the guitars are ripping through the atmosphere. The vocal adds a sense of yearning and some melodic contrast. Its a comforting affect, one that honors the emotional release this inspired moment gives you.
A mid song guitar break amplifies the abstract musicianship. It’s all here, everything you can want from a heavy shoegaze bending indie rock song. We’re big fans. Stylistically it’s a sure thing for fans of NewDad, DIIV, and Smashing Pumpkins.
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There’s a striking magnetism to the storytelling offered on Surrender Song, the new single from Quick Now Here Now Always. The songwriter is in touch with both sides of her complicated world, the dark and the discarded light. There’s a sentiment to her writing that suggests everything is in its right place to go her way if she lets it, but the devil in her ear has a winning argument pulling her into questionable exciting realms.
Her follies are lyrical entertainment and her sweet twang does well to twist the narrative fun, but beneath the makeup you suspect that dry tears have been covered. For us she blends the realms of Alanis Morissette and Liz Phair with the modern pensive writing of Courtney Barnett. There’s an angst to Surrender, sometimes you have to get there to give yourself to it.
Surrender Song is featured on our All New Rock Playlist.
The Wild Is Calling 