Puts a smile on my face. A big one. When those vocals come in… so beautiful! It's in what I like to call "the catharsis genre", it's arm hair-raising and lush. I love this song and I loved having him on as a PI guest because I learned about scrapple
Moves gorgeously between hard rock and softer songs. Nothing Like, Softly, Loud Bark 🤌🏻 asking the brave question “what if Jesus himself ate my fucking snatch?” 🤌🏻
Purpur Spytt (Charlotte Mermoud of The Staches solo) - Scavenges, Time-travels, and Scrapbooks. Minimal post punk heavy on the bass, light on guitars, plus some keyboard squiggles with art punk vocals that play dodgeball with melody.
For me, this track elicits the catharsis that hyperpop was born for. It removes itself from the tug-of-war between maximalism and minimalism, sincerity and sarcasm. It feels like a hit of nitrous oxide: giggly and then euphoric. The collage of different vocal takes and deliveries has an intriguing quality that gives the song the perfect edge to an otherwise very familiar and classic sort of pop song. It takes the best parts of late aughts/early 10’s pop and more contemporary experimental electronic music (is that an elephant cry leading out of the chorus? Why is his voice so milky in the best way?) I was such a hater of this band, but this song helped me to understand that/what they want to feel. Anthem.
When the bar or venue or whatever is underground and you have to descend into the place because you can say some shit like “We are entering the seedy underbelly of this wicked city” “You know,” *cig drag* “crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.”
And then your friends can be like “Viv, you can’t smoke inside Dude also where the fuck did you find a pipe and a fedora What are you even saying” Giving you the opportunity to respond with a
“Beat it toots, you’re too pretty for these streets anyhow”
Then you remember your friend already offered to pay for the Uber XL home and you have like 11 bucks so you drop the bit but the sentiment is still there below the surface