Like the best Stanley Odd releases, this new track in just over 3 minutes delivers a suckerful of musical and lyrical punches second by second…
The music rasps and pumps while Solareye’s vocals range around multiple subjects, often all at the same time – so what have you got? Hiphop sellouts (“we did do that advert..”), Scottish politics, indierock wars, authenticity etc, the verses ending with the kiss-off “Hi friends, We’re Still Here”…
Things get even more heated in the last section, where the music veers off into something very weird – almost dubby, excellent though… and another killer line “I don’t hate, I laugh”, but the machine gun percussion effects suggest there are times when…
The Odd are Still Here and the world is better for it – a riotous belter of a track, and BM hopes to hear more soon, and of course those live gigs…