"how do you find love and comfort when you don't trust anyone..."
I am loving the interwoven sonic layers of "Pushermen" by "Rotterdam based post-punk / alt rock group Iguana Death Cult. The intricacies are many, the sliding romping bass lines, the lead guitars that skip and hop around those lines even spitting out a cool artful double lead, drums that prog rock and surf punk out and a raucous, and a snarky vocal aesthetic with swagger and (self-deprecation). I am feeling the artistic nucleic acid of bands like Television, Gang of Four, Mission of Burma and the guy ranting at the liquor store. Truly digging the sound here.
Of "Pushermen" the band shares:
"This is one of those songs that just sort of happened while fooling around. Talking about it now already feels kind of surreal but we were literally trapped inside my home because of the curfew that was installed due to covid. Guitar in hand, we were reviewing the state of the world and the growing division and distrust we saw not only in the media, but amongst the people we know. Someone joked that we should quit the band and go into the vaccine business and so, we had our chorus. A chorus that ends on a more serious note that we don't want to be victims of our time. I tried to make the lyrics ambiguous enough that you don't really know which side the narrator is on. In the end we're just all people living different lives."
The official video is a bunch of stupid fun and I mean that as a compliment, again, the band shares:
"'Pushermen.' It kind of sounds like an action movie doesn’t it? Sadly we came a couple of million short, so Hache came with the idea to do a casting video for a fictional film called: 'Pushermen.' The scenes we did were loosely based on the movie 'Superfly.' If you know, you know."
Artists reflect the world around us, currently that world is so, so very fucked up. This makes for a lot of fodder for art, for songs to fertilize our brains and inside every good / great artful songs there are things to gleam, things to impact us either as inspiring poetry or cosmic jokes that enriches us.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
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After the pandemic hit, and the people of the world suddenly grew wary and suspicious of one another, Iguana Death Cult, one of Europe’s most exciting rock exports, became more than just a band to its members—it became therapy. The sounds they started to make tapped into the band’s acerbic bite established on their first two LPs, 2017’s The First Stirrings of Hideous Insect Life and 2019’s Nude Casino — (Paste described Nude Casino as evoking “the colorful mischief of nights out where even a humdrum accountant can feel like a Clint Eastwood desperado.”). Their explosive performances turned them into a cult live act among psych fans, who have thrashed to the band everywhere from Amsterdam to Austin. (It was during a particularly bananas set at SXSW that the band won over Innovative Leisure.) But working on the new album ‘Echo Palace’ (Out May 12th, via Innovative Leisure), huddled together as the world split apart, everything began to flutter like Remain in Light. When it came time to record the full set, the band headed to PAF Studio in Rotterdam, and then had the self-produced album subsequently mixed by Joo-Joo Ashworth (Froth, SASAMI, Dummy) at Studio 22 in Los Angeles and mastered by Dave Cooley (Tame Impala, Yves Tumor). The album is a big swing, stretching Iguana Death Cult beyond its garage rock origins and taking them to a new realm. The end result of Echo Palace is an appropriately worldly album from a group breaking past the confines of its home country.
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