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Emeritus
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Last Active 11-27-20 3:47 am
Joined 04-14-17
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| wombo new song (NEWS)
BREKING: NEW SONG FROM WAMBO IS GOOD i wanna talk about it | | 1 |  | wombo
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new song from Wombo entitled 'Danger In Fives. really good stuff crew. It's so simple i can, like, itemize it: there are 3 bass chords the whole time. lyrics: 3 whole lines and that's it. drum beat changes: none, it's the same antsy loop. the song has an A section, a B section, and a small C section (lol) and they all play out in that order like twice. That’s it. Wombo come across here as a band that are so confident in themselves that they can take some fairly common rhythmic patterns and chord progressions and imbue them with a magic not seen since... well i don't know when. im trying to find an apt comparison for the way these parts interact but my roledex of indie post-punk bands is coming up, for once in my frivolous life, empty. | | 2 | | wombo
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lyrically too im struggling to find the comparisons. sydney chadwick's lyrics are minimal and abstract, but she's got a uniquely tight grasp on imagery. "see through mind said to me: the danger comes in fives" is the repeated mantra here. its ten words, but its a ten-word phrase that fills itself up with potent mysticism. it makes the song feel bigger than it is,more surreal, maybe. it makes me feel like the song's about repeated cycles of violence throughout history – i see a wise god watching over us and scratching his wise beard before his wise comportment falls and he says something like "for fuck sake guys. we're doing this again?" but the image is so playful and lively that it could give way to so many other ones. | | 3 | | Wombo
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speaking of playful and lively i think the riff is one of the most gleefully cheeky and mischievous riffs i've ever heard. it bounces about like a ping-pong ball and creates the kind of pleasant anticipation or suspense you get from watching the DVD logo and waiting for it to fit perfectly in the corner of the screen. it kinda sounds like the muted arpeggios and the trill that comprise it are hard panned, giving the impression of two guitars playing very sparse and carefully chosen notes, which makes the track interactive and alive. | | 4 | | Wombo
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not to mention now that i mention it: when the riff comes in, it's the only time the bass changes the order of the chords its plucking. it's unsettling in the way it augurs change, the way it creates this hole of uncertainty in the middle of the song, and it reveals the songwriting intelligence we are dealing with. far too many people in this space fall victim to worshipping false idols of maximalism; wombo deal instead in subtle sleight-of-hands tricks. clever inversions, manipulations of structure to tell a story, et cetera and also: …etc. | | 5 | | Wombo
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the production ties it all together, puts it all into frame, but what we're seeing here is a dutch angle. everything sounds tight and intentional, but it also feels kinda squashed, caught askew. Whole damn thing sounds a little bit odd and evasive if you ask me, like you’re trying to ask it a question and it has that look in its eye where it knows the answer but just doesn’t wanna tell you for some reason. but I love it – I’m so impressed with how much ‘danger in fives’ conjures up without having to shout and brag about it. it’s so delightfully clever in its every facet that it puts you through a gamut of ambiguous feelings without having to telegraph where it’s going with a few extra guitars that scream “CLIMAX!” (lol) and then ending on a raucous note. not that I usually have a problem with that | |
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05.22.25 | its 11 words actually | gabba
05.22.25 | nice that they're back with new material, I really dig Fairy Rust |
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