Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Artist: The Strumbellas
Track: “Spirits”
Remember in 2006 when My Chemical Romance launched the single/video “Welcome To The Black Parade”, and it was so wildly over-the-top that, on some levels anyway, it actually worked? Or way back to 1967 when The Beatles had done pretty much the same thing with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band except it actually did work? Well subtlety be damned, here’s your folk installment. “Spirits”, The Strumbellas’ lead single to Hope, seems to have it all: a huge chorus with a melody that sticks, harmonized crowd chants, clashing cymbals, a tender bridge heavy on the piano, and even some subtle brass. Maybe we didn’t ask the band to parade through the streets while performing, but that’s where the element of grandiosity – for as often as it feels out of place in music – almost seems fitting here. As The Strumbellas sing out proudly “But something inside has changed, and maybe we don’t wanna stay the same” and “I don’t want a never-ending life, I just want to be alive while I’m here”, there’s this sense that they’re speaking to a larger purpose worthy of such demonstrative celebration. Subtlety may be lacking all around, but I can promise you that even if you only listen once, it won’t the the last time it plays through your head.
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reminds me so much of any/all popular indie-folk over the past 5 years, but something about it being even more magnified and ridiculous makes me love it
also, am I the only one who thinks the lead singer dances like Chris Martin?
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but I've heard other songs of theirs and they def have a folk element
let me know what you think!
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