Spooky Cool, Existential Pie
It’s almost spring. You’re starting to be able to count on sunny, warm days. Crocuses, Daffodils, allergies, Redbud blossoms. It’s all creeping back and Sunday was even warmer in the shade than Saturday was -- as the soak from Friday is brought to a more acceptable room temperature. Step out in confidence. Be overdressed and sweat off the winter cold. Let the chafing of an old canvas coat be your aging process, your weathering on the surface of a Tulip Poplar tree or a Sweet Gum. Take it in and let it out. Only letting passing joggers into the periphery of your bubble, inject your suburban landscape with the poppy-metal sounds of Spooky Cool’s 2022 album, Existential Pie. First out-of-date connections for me are to Arcade Fire, Naked & Famous, Animal Collective and the end of Beatles 1 — in other words, happy times – in its aggressive and energetic, complex drumline, an explosive introductory sound matching decisive, simple and mellow lyrics with sparkling, hi-tone lead and rhythm. I love the way underneath this layer of dazzling treble and vocals coming at you through a hookah cloud, a tin pan?... a sludgy, atonal bass rhythm, like a hidden character, lets itself be known only in maybe the second track and periodically thereafter.
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