Heavy Song of the Week is a function on Heavy Consequence breaking down the highest steel, punk, and arduous rock tracks you have to hear each Friday. This week, No. 1 goes to “Environmental Disaster Movie” by La Dispute.
Strap in, as a result of La Dispute’s nine-minute “Environmental Disaster Movie” ain’t no fast hitter. Singer Jordan Dreyer’s narrative progressively bores in and ensnares the listener’s consideration, the Slint-style spoken phrase supply rendered unusually fascinating on this age of the podcast. In the meantime, the phrases dictate and partially orchestrate an association that melds post-hardcore with the exploratory open-endedness of prog and post-rock. Dreyer’s vocals choose as much as devastating screamo howls because the music and story cascade linearly to the tracks’s inevitable climax of crushing breakdowns.
Following the three-song “Act One” suite, “Environmental Disaster Movie” capabilities as “Act Two” of La Dispute’s upcoming album No One Was Driving the Automotive, which is setting as much as be their most literarily conceptual full-length to this point.
Honorable Mentions:
Between the Buried and Me – “Issues We Inform Ourselves within the Darkish”
Between La Dispute and Between the Buried and Me, it was week for lengthy prog-y songs. BTBAM’s “Issues We Inform Ourselves within the Darkish” opens with a jazz-funk riff that feels like Japanese metropolis pop. The band ultimately steer issues into extra steel territories across the three-minute mark as the cruel vocals creep in, the band weaving via prog exercises throughout the rollercoaster monitor’s eight-minute runtime earlier than bookending with extra funk riffs.
Motörhead – “Leavin’ Right here”
The continuing Motörhead archival dump has been an gratifying trip to this point, and there’s no finish in sight. How The Manticore Tapes acquired shelved for therefore lengthy is a thriller, because it’s among the extra intriguing materials we’ve heard from the archive, documenting the formative period of the band in 1976. The minimal manufacturing and rawness of this cowl of “Leavin’ Right here” drives dwelling the punk influences within the band’s sound at the moment.
Orange 9mm – “Flip It Up”
You gotta love a monitor that instructions you to “Flip it up!” That is the Heavy Tune of the Week rundown, in spite of everything, and almost 100% of the songs we function right here sound higher if you happen to crank that quantity knob a notch. The danceable post-hardcore skronk riffs are in full impact on this joyous tune — the NYC act’s first new music in 26 years and a shot of sheer positivity. Welcome again!
