I’m not sure if there was ever a band back in the heady days of Brit-pop who were just as energized by the punk spirit as they were by the Cool Britannia swagger. But if there was, they probably sounded a lot like the gloriously raw and rebellious sound that Afternoon in the Park makes here.
Taken from their debut album, Livin’ Around the Sun, “Destination” is a great song and also a bit of a sonic chameleon. Give it another spin, and you hear an echo of Libertines garage pop racket; a third and you hear the spirit of indie saviors The Strokes at work, play it again, and you will be convinced by those relentless and driving opening bars that you are about to be dragged headlong into a Dandy Warhols masterpiece.
But, references aside, as cool as they may be, this is a song all about energy, drive, and the resurrection of the scuzzy rock and roll spirit. and if lyrically, it is a premonition of a digitally dominated future where everyone is a slave to the screen in front of them, hooked into nothingness as the world around them burns, – a world which doesn’t feel far away, the music is a prediction of a glorious indie-rock revival just around the corner…one would hope.
When that happens, Afternoon in the Park, we will be leading the sonic charge to storm the barricades of mundanity and conformity! And I’ll be right behind them. Who’s with me?
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