There is a point in Essex (UK) indie rock band Don't Worry's heart stealing track "Head's Chocka", and from their anticipated sophomore album "Remorseless Swing" due to drop March 25th (2022) via Specialist Subject, where I can literally feel my legs get lighter as if I could float a tad off the floor. It happens for me at around 1 minute and 23 seconds in as the chorus lifts off and a lead guitar line harmonizes with the vocal melody, "Baby, you know I’ve always been a romantic / I could die but what would I miss?" It is absolutely stunning and this is the thing, the song itself (like the lyric) is terribly romantic and in terms of songwriting hinges on bits of indie pop 80's nostalgia but even better feels sort of late 70's proto punkian too. A period that sometimes reinvented 60's Brit pop flavors and I feel that here too (mental note of the slight Mersey beat were I could see Ringo splashing that ride cymbal in the same way).
The band also smartly pumps your heart with a pre-chorus refrain, "I'm tongue tied over you, I'm tongue tied over it" and speaking of the chorus, well there is one musically but not really lyrically as it changes over each chorus. I love this brilliant divergent device that keeps the lovely and thoroughly romantic sound ie theme, musical narrative shifting like the ground beneath your feet. After all, that is how you feel when you are hopelessly in love, slightly unsteady with a mushy head.
Love this track, utterly, completely.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/dontworryband
https://twitter.com/dontworryband
https://dontworry.bandcamp.com/album/remorseless-swing
https://soundcloud.com/specialistsubject/dont-worry-heads-chocka/s-Rlg057fZGf3
https://open.spotify.com/track/6r8P3Qv3UtBOv1g2XZ2TXd
Essex indie punks Don't Worry come take influence from throughout rock and pop history and are loved for their distinctly British sensibility, humor and the deft way they navigate anxiety and uncertainty in their lyrics while writing catchy bangers.
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