"come to me now I'll call to warn / without face and without form / come, eclipse my open eyes / wrap me up, and I’ll say night / Ring me up and call collect, hold me down and wring my neck, quiet hands make me still, make me stay..."
The moody tubular synths, progressive indie rock / post punk sadness of "Disruption", by Chicago post punk indie outfit Speed Therapy, is potent and beautifully perfect in it's nostalgic capture of 80's indie / 90's post punk, so perfect that it is easy to believe that this is found footage. Dreadfully melancholy (in a great way), dreamily on the razors edge of all our confused youth, the rolling textured guitar lines against booming bass and shuffling drums and pearly keys ebb and erupt in stormy ways for a darkly romantic, somber and maybe even self flogging poetic lyrics sung in a pretty gorgeous way. The massive musical break with what feels like layered phased guitars is brilliant as well.
The dense poetry contain in the lyrics feel like an implosion of feelings and with words like: "Ring me up and call collect, hold me down and wring my neck, quiet hands make me still, make me stay / I'm so tired / twisting these knives away / oh disrupt me / capsize and pulverize me on your shore / recognize me / fleeting momentary / and the sky eulogize me, eulogize me..." - get under your skin (I apologize if I got some incorrect as they were not listed).
Sonically I kept thinking of both The Smiths circa 1984 eponymous debut album and Radiohead circa 1993 debut album Pablo Honey kind of colliding into something else.
Oh, to be young once again and have your heart torn out.
Speed Therapy is comprised of Duncan Kummer · William Wensel · Carlos Alvarez · Alan Theisen · Kenneth Behmer ·
-Robb Donker Curtius
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