"who can really say it's much better (?)"
There is a specific time frame around 1 minute and 38 seconds in to 2 minutes and 38 seconds in where "Light Contact" becomes gleefully unhinged, guitars feeling like empty beer bottles colliding, vocals ramping up in layers, all of them courtesy of Nadia Garofalo of Chicago post-punks Ganser (and god I adore / love her vocal character), bass, guitars and drums crashing together in such an unbridled combination of punk, downtown city streets, sensual allure drenched with cool and about 5 potent genres smooshed together. NOW, mind you what comes before and after this climax is just as captivating and artistically potent. The dense guitars, the lead rhythmic lines that somehow recall Italian cop car sirens and more, all of it is drop dead gorgeous.
The band is Heavy Feelings, a Bristol UK collaborative of sorts and while I don't know all the players, "Light Contact" features the amazing vocals of aforementioned Nadia Garofalo of Chicago post-punks Ganser and drums from musician/producer John Parish. The track is from Heavy Feelings' debut album "Power Reflection'" that dropped on 3rd June 2022. I literally can't stop listening to this track. Interestingly the opening sideways guitar moves had me thinking of Radiohead a bit but when it becomes more alt rock crashing I thought of an amalgam of The Stooges, Queens of the Stone Age, The Pretenders, PJ Harvey and Dramarama. Wow, fucking wow.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://heavyfeelings.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/38OJ5COCP1plx2kGPqfuRm
https://soundcloud.com/heavyfeelingsmusic
https://www.instagram.com/heav_yfeelings/
https://amazingradio.com/profile/heavyfeelings
From Bristol, UK, open-ended collaborations using the templates of rock music as starting positions.
Debut album ‘Power⚡Reflection’ released 3rd June 2022.
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Heavy Feelings, Post-Punk, art rock, indie rock, Bristol, UK, "Light Contact", Debut album "Power⚡Reflection", punk, alternative rock, busker punk, rock collective
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