"I won't kid myself that it's not funny / being right about things that never come to be / so make this the year of happy endings / we'll finally push that boat out into the sea..."
The existential bets, losses and wins of "Everything You Love" by the enigmatic New Jersey, punk adjacent basement rockers Miracleworker, feels like a youthful run down city streets (or even sparse rural towns). The shoegaze blend of power pop and emo punk stirs up memories of 90's ostensibly emo outfits (of varying degrees of heaviness), artists like The Get Up Kids, The Replacements, Superchunk, Archers of Loaf come to mind. I also feel (call me crazy) that the sonic sensibility at its core, the raucous swing, the innate feeling here, could be taken as straight up Americana rock, like a young Springsteen could have done up "Everything You Love" in his own way simply because some of the nucleic acid feels the same.
"Everything You Love" feels like something jubilant (if somehow a bit sad too), feels nostalgic and dreamy. I appreciate the poetry buried beneath and at the surface of the words.
"I won't kid myself that it's not funny
Being right about things that never come to be
So make this the year of happy endings
We'll finally push that boat out into the sea...
Everything you love
Everything you love
Everything you love"
Everything you love
Everything you love"
(you can read them all on Spotify)
Like the song itself, sonically this track feels rough around the edges which is ok by me. The massive (but not too massive) guitars and vocals that feel endearing make up for the sort of lo-fi sound. Maybe the drum sound most of all suffers a bit from the sonic aesthetic but, again, that's ok by me. This is the kind of song you want to experience in a small venue stuffed full of people.
-Robb Donker Curtius
New Jersey punk adjacent basement rock.
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