Glasgow’s Dragged Up have been on the go for a few years now with a few lineup changes and a couple of releases under their belt. A five-piece who have been gigging quite a bit recently, this is a new single released early February.
There’s an interesting melange of sounds and influences here – some Cramps-esque rockabilly guitar, some busy bass notes and a slightly post-punk overall sound. The spoken/sung female vocals are deliberately dispassionate but very effective. The guitar sound ramps up a bit for the chorus, which sounds slightly garage rock, slightly C86.
There’s a slightly mad instrumental section midway through, including a key-change and some B52-ish, even dub-influenced echo and guitar-bothering before we get a last chorus – what’s it all about? BM has not a clue, (“we’ve become a reflex of muscle memory” – a stale relationship maybe?) about a missing person or otherwise, but it is well worth checking out!
(also worth mentioning there is an alternate version ‘Machine Person’, which takes the “in dub” concept a bit further, like a collision between Delta5 and The Mad Professor).