Jacuzzi Fire – Why’d You Save Me?
People certainly notice a great haircut. They also compliment snappy dressers and like to have those who can tell good jokes with them at parties. But the clothes, haircuts and jokes all become passe eventually. It’s the ones who don’t or can’t rely on glamour and who can somehow muster the energy of excitement to get themselves back in the game who end up winning. It just takes a really long time for everyone else to realise what has happened.
The majority of music scenes and the bands in them try to rely on a combination of these three things as they look to ascend the mountain. But, if they can draw enough of a crowd, you’re likely to see them sporting the same haircuts and clothes and telling the same jokes on their 30-year anniversary reunion tours. Just take a look at the majority of 90s pop-punk bands still at it.
Jacuzzi Fire’s “Why’d You Save Me?” is powerful, energy-filled music that is bound to save your morning if you play just before your second cup of coffee. Jacuzzi Fire sound like punk-rock monks, like people who will gladly do this job every night of their life with the same level of commitment regardless of whether they will be rewarded for their efforts or not. Bands like Jacuzzi Fire aren’t many, and they’re the ones who are going to win long after the haircuts have gone out of fashion.
The Resinators – CAUTION
I hate musicians who have the ability to do very complicated things on their instruments effortlessly and choose to use their superpowers. And I think that you should as well. Can’t you find anything more entertaining than a guitarist who can play marvellously complex guitar solos while drinking an espresso or doing homework?
The musicians you should endorse are the ones who have a hard time every step of the way. You should like the ones who can barely tune their instruments yet come up with something special on that very instrument. You should root for the ones who, when playing live, seem to be part of a sound that’s going to fall apart at any moment, but somehow, it doesn’t.
There’s a sound that comes from that kind of struggle. That’s a sound that The Resinators’ “CAUTION,” with its combative mix of punk and reggae, manages to capture. This is not music played by people who want to show off for their own benefit. This is a sound that could tip over into chaos at any time, a sound that is designed to charge and stimulate an audience. These are the bands worth endorsing.
