Heavy Track of the Week is a function on Heavy Consequence breaking down the highest metallic, punk, and onerous rock tracks it is advisable hear each Friday. This week, No. 1 goes to Scowl’s “B.A.B.E.”
Scowl throw it again to the Clinton administration on “B.A.B.E.,” the second single from their upcoming album Are We All Angels.
This sugar-sweet spike of nostalgia is the form of observe that acquired bands signed to huge labels in the course of the post-Nirvana feeding frenzy — an alterna-pop banger that might have flirted with FM rotation in ’93.
There’s a couple of blasts of hardcore right here and there — the sound the band began on — however Scowl are in any other case in grungy guitar mode, invoking CD-era heroes reminiscent of Fountains of Wayne, Redd Kross, and No Doubt. The anachronisms don’t cease there: The music video appears like VHS camcorder footage and is in a 4:3 CRT facet ratio, no much less.
Honorable Mentions:
Peter Murphy feat. Trent Reznor – “Swoon”
The nice and cozy and seemingly analog manufacturing on “Swoon” is instantly placing. With its dance-punk beat and stabs of guitar, the track sounds so ’80s — a credit score to producer Youth (aka Martin Glover) of Killing Joke. Throw Trent Reznor within the combine — the NIN supplies extra vocals — and this can be a bonafide A-list collab throughout — a must-listen for anybody who’s a fan of goth/industrial/post-punk and a late-career gem in Bauhaus legend Peter Murphy’s acclaimed canon.
Swervedriver – “The World’s Truthful”
Shoegaze pioneers Swervedriver are set to launch a brand new EP, The World’s Truthful, on March seventh. The title observe and second single is a beautiful, subdued piece that options distinguished piano, although it’s blended in such a means that the keys seemingly meld with the guitar leads. The textural layering renders Swervedriver’s patented psychedelic swirl, however with out the dominating amp volumes usually related to the band and the shoegaze style typically.
Tetrarch – “By no means Once more (Parasite)”
“By no means Once more (Parasite)” notably options guitarist Diamond Rowe’s first lead vocal components in a Tetrarch track, and he or she kills it, including that twin vocal impact that may be a calling card of traditional nu-metal. The band was already meting out a number of the strongest fashionable interpretations of the style, and this improvement unlocks an entire slew of recent songwriting prospects going ahead.