Fuzzysurf and Milk St. Reviewed
Fuzzysurf – Self Attraction
There are a lot of songs about outlaws, gurus, eccentrics and maniacs. In fact, if you think closely about it, except for the love ballads, most of the greatest songs in rock concern the aforementioned types of characters. But why? Perhaps it’s the fact that rock stars simply have a great understanding of how these people’s minds work.
After all, a rock star is someone who gets up on stage to entertain people while mimicking the greatest kind of confidence at all times. Rock stars want to be adored, pampered and have their merchandise bought by loyal fans. With this in mind, it’s always a thrill to hear rock musicians sing about self-aggrandising figures, and this is what Fuzzysurf do on their recent single.
“Self Attraction” takes the myth of Narcissus and gives it a modern sports car and dark sunglasses meant to be worn exclusively indoors. This is a song about self-obsession that turns itself into tactical manipulation. But the song is also a cute, slightly aggressive indie-rock number that arrives just at the tail-end of the Summer and one that, perhaps, will be perfect for festival stages come next season.
Milk St. – Good Grief
Yeah, life, essentially, happens the same way to everyone. We stare at photos taken decades ago, and we point and laugh at the silly clothes that people used to wear. We read the history books and imagine how people used to live centuries ago. Yet, at the end of the day, bar a few tragedies, life and all of its terrible difficulties and simple joys have stayed the same.
If everything does move in circles and in patterns that keep popping out, why wouldn’t the same happen for music? Now, that rock n’ roll is old, established and means so much to so many; why wouldn’t the past be our future? With all of this in mind, Milk St. deliver new old stock about sharp, modern, but classic, problems.
“Good Grief” is a wonderful mess of an indie-rock song, the kind of thing that you would expect to hear on a Pavement rehearsal tape where the band is busy trying to cover T. Rex or Slade. It’s an old sound, but Milk St. bring enough effervescence to the performance and a haunting, emotional set of lyrics that you have to believe that this is the truth for right this very moment.
