
Gladstone Devil – Can’t Sleep
Who wants to press “play” on a record or on their music streaming app and feel exactly the same as they did the moment before they did? What a waste of time that would be. Not just that, but in a world where we constantly look for something to wake us up and something else to put us back to sleep, listening to music would simply become much less appealing.
Nah, music has to compete with all of these things, looking to change the chemicals in your brain and somehow do it better. At its very best, a pop song, or music of an alternative nature, ought to confuse you about your surroundings, convince you that you’ve left the place where you were when you took the decision to press “play,” and once you wake up from your daze, have you want to listen to the song again.
Gladstone Devil’s “Can’t Sleep” is one of those manic songs that manages to shake some of the performers’ energy into the world of the listener. It’s a paranoid psychedelic punk that drives the track, and if you’re in the right mood and playing this at the required level, it’s hard to resist its charm. It feels like being thrown into a car, drifting off the road and waking up back on your coach. Wouldn’t that make you want to just do it all over again?
Algorerhythm – Social Genocide
If there’s one thing that people love talking about is themselves. Everyone can get it on the action, and everyone, without exception, thinks that they’re fascinating while doing it. Ask a man to compliment someone else or provide you with some entertaining facts, and they’ll babble incoherently. Ask them to compliment themselves, and you’ll get a novel’s worth of prose on self-love.
Yeah, of course, social media was successful. People don’t have friends these days. The idea of being able to tell the world what you’ve been doing, to show them how you look, or to play them your favourite song is mighty enticing. Who knew it would be this popular, though? Who knew, on average, we’d be spending half of our waking ours on social media apps? It turns out we’re all egomaniacs with not a lot to say and all the time in the world to say it.
Algorerhythm’s “Social Genocide” is a blues-punk protest song about what may seem like a tiny thing, but which historians will giggle about when they chronicle our society’s downfall – social media and the way that it rules the world. Algorerhythm’s sound is built on classic punk-rock attitude, modern rock production and a bit of James Hetfield vocal snarl. But will you be able to add the song to one of your TikTok reels?