javahead – dunkin’ love letter
Similar artists: Jeff Rosenstock
Genre: Indie Rock, Garage Rock
Being on your own for a long time is not a natural way for anyone to live. It can either make a person destroy their lives, or it can push them to create great things out of their need to entertain themselves. When it comes to musicians, locking themselves away from the world may just be the most helpful thing for their careers besides scrounging together a promotion budget.
javahead is music that seems written in cold seclusion, made better by the ever-so-slight narcotic potential of hot cups of coffee. Like many of the great, nearly lost rock records of old, it sounds made without much encouragement or involvement from outside sources. And, because of all of this it carries with it an honesty that is otherwise hard to locate in popular music.
javahead’s “dunkin’ love letter” has quite a memorable, retro-sounding pop tune attached to the song’s lyrics that make drinking eight cups of coffee sound like driving a minivan to the Bahamas. These are the kinds of ideas that come to a man, provided they also have considerable talent, when they’re left alone to their own devices. And, while the mythology javahead creates is intoxicating, your ticker will thank you if you just stay on one-two cups per day.
Ex-Debonair – Send It
Similar artists: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Kills, The Vines, Arctic Monkeys, The Jesus and Mary Chain
Genre: Indie Rock, Garage Rock, Alternative Rock
You can get a lot of things out of wearing an expensive, tailored suit. Of course, the palace where you can get most of those things is in the corporate world. Contrary to popular belief, shallow conclusions and unfair expectations still determine success and failure over there. But rock n’ roll isn’t very different.
Just as you would not go to a job interview or business meeting without using a suit as armour, you wouldn’t think of eliminating a leather jacket and denim jeans from the obligatory rocker uniform. It’s not just the clothes that need to be tailored for the role. It’s the sound as well.
Certain rock sounds make you understand the brand of the band from the very first seconds of music. Ex-Debonair specializes in dark road-trip music with their single “Send It.” The instrumental is highly convincing and should please the many fans of bands like The Velvet Underground or their disciples, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. And while certain aspects of the sound may need a bit of fine tuning, Ex-Debonair have their sights on the dark horizon and it’ll be hard to stop them