PICKLE JUICE – Caught In A Lie
Plugging an electric guitar into a large amp and then playing with the rest of the band at a really quick pace will, still get you noticed. People will stop what they’re doing, move closer to the stage and give you some time to wow them. There’s no running away once that happens. Only two things can happen. Either you’re going to wow the audience and make them dance. Or, you will have them cussing you out for having wasted their time on you.
Yes, there are plenty of more popular music genres than pop. Most of them, however, tend to blend into the background. And, there are many louder, more aggressive styles. However, most of those are too extreme for regular audiences to take an interest in. Rock, on the other hand, can get you through the door. Do you really want the attention that comes with it?
PICKLE JUICE wants the eyes and ears of the audience on them and knows what they’re going to do once they get those. The musicians aren’t willing to do any of the things that might bore them and send them back to the boor for a refill. “Caught in a Lie” is a pop-punk song filled with one catchy hook after the other, a song that wastes no time on things that you’re likely to zone out to, a song that makes the best of the attention that people will give it.
General Labor – Calculator
Secret societies have never been more fascinating than they are now. This is not merely because we are a more paranoid bunch than, perhaps, at any point in modern history. It’s because everything now has a web address, a chat room, and long explanation videos. A quick web search will give you the address and the secret password to see a show inside a punk squat house or attend a sermon at the Masonic Lodge.
There’s no reason to ask what people with an Instagram page might be hiding. You can just ask them. This is precisely why truly secret societies are needed more than ever. They need to justify the wages of secret services having to spy on someone. And they need to feed our collective curiosity, to give us a reason to think that there’s something more going on than people than fraternities meeting up for a spritzer on the weekend.
General Labor sounds like the work of a secret society that also has to throw on a show at the very end of each presentation. The mystery certainly works to the group’s advantage since the production values don’t. Think of “Calculator” as a recording that’s been sneaked out by an Alex Jones-like conspiracy theorist who wants to know just why these kids are meeting in the basement and writing punk songs about hating technology. Are these followers of the Unabomber and how far will they go?
