Animal Mood – Danger In The Living Room
Boredom is waiting to do great things for you! Just you wait and see!
But, of course, you won’t wait. The world’s waiting to entertain and distract you, and it takes only a few clicks on your device to get you to wherever you want to go.
And while, yes, people of the past would’ve freaked out at the mere suggestion that this could be an option, you’re endangering your imagination and your brain’s long-term health. Animal Mood is a band that’s taken matters into its own hands.
With so many stories just waiting to be told to you, when is your imagination ever going to start doing a bit of heavy lifting? Without the luxury of living in a small town during the 1980s, when are you ever going to start imagining the unimaginable?
Punk-rock doesn’t often dream of incredible fantasy worlds. That’s usually reserved for prog-rock people with funny-looking shorts. However, “Danger In The Living Room” is an enthusiastically delivered, rousing horror-meets-Indiana Jones song. This is a short story meant for the pulp magazines that somehow got the rock n’ roll muscle to push it up the mountain and over the cliff. You must hope that the musicians remain as bored and as creative in the future.
Victory Point – Stoked On It
I am not looking to dissuade any creative types from pursuing a life as an artist. But you’re teachers and parents may have been right. At least, partially. Yes, artists aren’t known to prioritise their health, the well-being of others and personal development outside of their art.
It’s not a coincidence that none of the great modern musicians, for example, appear on the podcasts of self-help gurus or produce testimonials for their shows. The truly great musicians are doing their best to get by when planted in the real world for a change.
Victory Point knows that there’s a place in between abysmal failure and fantastic success that needs finding. But all of the people sharing their lives as examples and promising to help you better yourself just bring most of us down.
Victory Point’s “Stoked On It” is effervescent, eccentric pop-punk. It’s a song about the standards set for themselves and those around them, and the stress that comes with trying to live up to them. But the song’s biggest calling card is Victory Point’s ability to work with striking dynamics and deliver confident hooks within a well-produced pop-punk context.
