New Music: White Rabbits: "Kid on My Shoulders"
"Kid on My Shoulders" has the momentum of a freight train with bad brakes. The chugging steam engine is the constantly moving piano part that underpins the song, sweeping everything in its path along as the bolts begin to fly off and things get increasingly out of control. The drums start in with just a thump on every beat and grow progressively wilder. The only respite is a short breakdown preceding the closing swell that runs it right off the tracks with loud percussion and repeated vocal phrases. These guys have a pronounced flair for the dramatic-- just listen to those crashing surf guitar lines that descend like air-to-surface missiles in the song's opening moments. The song's dark sway is tough to get out of your head, but it's hard to imagine wanting to get it out of there anyway.
[from Fort Nightly; due 05/22/07 on Say Hey]