
Chameleon Inc – Stunted
Similar artists: Pixies, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Audioslave, The Smashing Pumpkins
Genre: Garage Rock, Alternative Rock
Everyone needs a bit of sympathy sometimes. The people who never receive it, almost without exception, find themselves crashing out. You’ll hear it with celebrities, especially athletes nowadays. Everyone expects that they will perform to a very high standard. Nobody thinks that they deserve any understanding. And, so, most of them can’t wait for the day when they can retire.
Of course, those people do their work in exchange for financial rewards, oftentimes tremendously high ones. That’s enough to make some of the pain go away. But what about regular people? What about folks growing up and facing the hardships of life and the lack of humanity of their peers? Is there any place that they can go?
Rock music has always been a refuge for young people looking for tools to deal with what life has and is ready to aggressively throw at them. Chameleon Inc’s “Stunted” is that kind of alt-rock song of woe and angst. It’s truthful, too, with the feelings brought to the tune not sounding counterfeit. Because of all of these reasons, Chameleon Inc. will find its appropriate audience.
Repeat – Man On The Moon
Similar artists: Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles Of Death Metal, Fu Manchu, The Hives, The Von Bondies
Genre: Punk, Stoner Rock, Alternative Rock
No matter how many guitar virtuosos will amass millions of views online, and no matter how logic-defying their skills get, they will inevitably fall out of fashion. Who will they lose to? The guitar players can just get a few power chords to sound like engines rumbling over the precipice of a large chasm. Their unrefined, evil sound wins every time.
But rock ain’t much in fashion these days, is it? You make a fair point there, sonny. But you gotta look at big-picture stuff. Rock always tends to crawl back onto the ship like an animal that’s being forcefully pushed off the deck by the crue. Besides, there aren’t many popular rock bands that are even capable of attempting that. Mineral water and a steady diet of Imagine Dragons can’t possibly open the imagination up to such possibilities.
Repeat’s “Man On The Moon” is designed to sound nasty, somewhat in the vein of the given Josh Homme project, and resemble a dangerous night out on the town. The whole structure is based on a simple ingredient – the power that the electric guitars can produce. The rest can go to hell, and, according to Repeat, so can the bands that don’t actually plug their guitars into their amps. This is angry dad rock, and the dads have been working all week.