Track Of The Day: Dream Nails – ‘Tourist’

Having had a fantastic few months of touring with the likes of Petrol Girls, Cherry Glazerr and Bleached, Get In Her Ears favourites Dream Nails are back with the release of their brand new Dare To Care EP, out later this month.

Taken from the EP, new single ‘Tourist’ is a racing, punk-fuelled offering, packing a punch with its seething, fist-clenching force. Written about emotionally predatory men who are drawn to women when they’re vulnerable, it’s propelled by guitarist Anya’s truly infectious riffs, pounding beats and front woman Janey’s buoyant energy and impassioned vocals. Of the track, Janey explains:

“… it’s about men who present themselves as a hero but all they really want to do is fetishise sad girls, make them emotionally attached and then abuse that power. We can smell those guys a mile away and they’re creepy.”

As the track builds to an almighty climax of empowering might, it shows just why we need Dream Nails in our lives; at times like this, we need bands like them more than ever – a group willing to combine activism and music to form a unifying force against the patriarchy. A group who create sparkling, energy-filled offerings that succeed in inspiring and motivating girls everywhere to get to the front and make our voices heard.

Listen to ‘Tourist’ here:

 

Dare To Care, the upcoming EP from Dream Nails is out 27 October. And you can catch them live at the EP launch that night, at DIY Space For London.

 

Mari Lane
@marimindles

 

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Track Of The Day: Onsind – ‘Immature’

“Do I sound like a teenager, When I say that you’ve infantalised our rage, When I say I want to put myself in danger, Do I sound immature?”

The first single to be taken from new album We Wilt, We Bloom, released next month on Specialist Subject records, Onsind’s ‘Immature’ is the perfect intersection of upbeat indiepop melody and down-but-not-out societal dissatisfaction.

Tackling the dissonance between the baby boomers who grew up cushioned by the welfare state and healthy economies, and the younger generations accused of “wanting it all on a plate” the track wraps scathing ironies in pop-punk jaunt. Amid jangling yet scratchy guitar the lyric brings forth the ennui of the disaffected, the numbing sense of futility punctured only by blooms of anger.

Not unsurprisingly given the shared members between the bands, the track shares melodic similarities with Martha, but where lyrically the latter tends to hang hope on the breadth of love, Onsind is a more overtly political beast. And it is so without the polarising spit and snarl of typical punk but with a more considered navigation of the often murky waters of society and class. When in ‘Immature’ they pit the haves of the older generation against the have nots of the younger, it is not with a binary outcome but rather a subtle entanglement that we are all at once both the winner and the loser in life.

Perfect pop in the sense you can sing along to the chorus saved from the everyday in the purity of voices raised together in song, or can find comfort in words which in a generously intellectual way resonate where little else seems to be able to make you feel. As a lead track it bodes well for a long-awaited album and is another moment of growth in this band which has been sharing our anger and our joys for a decade now.

 

‘Immature’ is out now. All donations made on this pay what you like track will be donated to Salvage Collective , an organisation supporting women (cis, trans & intersex), trans & non-binary survivors & activists who experience gender oppression, violence and abuse in UK activist communities. Find it on Onsind’s Bandcamp. 

Sarah Lay 
@sarahlay

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Track Of The Day: Art Trip and The Static Sound – ‘Feminine Hygiene Spray’

Following on from May’s ‘No Fly Zone’ single and ahead of the new album out in early 2018, Art Trip and The Static Sound have released new track ‘Feminine Hygiene Spray’.

A hypnotic and intoxicating melody snakes around the repeating and layered vocals, the title refrain repeated until it is drilled into your brain, an inescapable order. This is a more subtle take-down of patriarchal indoctrination, no less cathartic to listen to but playing more to the drone than punk end of the rock spectrum.

And that’s what make Art Trip a particularly intriguing element on the current scene; their knack for societal commentary, righteous anger and political rage but pulling from a broader musical palette than just ‘70s punk.

With a blistering stage presence that manages to be both confrontational and inclusive, the band’s recorded efforts are no less impressive, and certainly no less immediate. ‘Feminine Hygiene Spray’ shows that not all punk has to be an unexpected sharp kick, but that anger is an energy which takes many forms and revels in many sounds.

‘Feminine Hygiene Spray’ is out now for pay what you like download on Art Trip and The Static Sound’s Bandcamp page.

 

Sarah Lay
@sarahlay

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Track Of The Day: Bugeye – ‘Wake Up’

With a bouncing bass line evoking Elastica, ‘Wake Up’ by Bugeye introduces itself in a snapping yet loose-limbed yelp and holler.

Dedicated to all the DIY collectives supporting music which seeking positive changes – the likes of LOUD WOMEN and The Zine UK get name-checked for all they’re doing for up and coming talent – the track is lyrically a call to arms, and melodically a call to the dancefloor. Harking back to the guitar-led and percussion-punctuated pop punk of the late ‘90s, the era in which Bugeye first formed, but updating it with the political snark of today.

Its power is in speaking of not being afraid of being alone, being different. It’s a shout of solidarity in fractured times, a splash of colour against austerity grey. With touches of Le Tigre and blasts of Blondie, Bugeye have as much in common with ‘70s punk, with Riot Grrrl and with ‘80s underground as they do the current sound of punk being pushed by bands like Dream Nails.

While the track doesn’t linger beyond its 2’39” play time, it oozes that indie-disco sound from which a whirling darkness, where wild eyes are windows to wilder souls, emanates. It’s a moment captured – one in which the heart beats faster with the joy of music, the fear of the future, and the anger at today.

They say, “Cage dancing politicians, the rich feeding off the poor, venue closures and “affordable housing” – an uprising is happening, it’s time to Wake Up and Fight Back” and in ‘Wake Up’, Bugeye have provided the short sharp rush you need to do just that before stealing yourself for the long-haul of resistance.  

‘Wake Up’ is out now on Marwoo Records. You can find Bugeye on Facebook and Twitter. 

Sarah Lay 
@sarahlay

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