Is there such a thing as mellow punk music? It does seem a contradiction in terms. But in the hands of the band that takes its name from such an idea, the concept isn’t the oxymoron it first appears to be and instead becomes a blending of really attractive opposites.
How do they do that? I hear you ask. Well, over a bed of raw and racing punk guitar salvos, Mellowpunk assembles poised electro-pop washes to soften the edges and smooth the ride, building a sound that is big and robust but sophisticated as well as sassy. If most punk is woven from raw sonic threads, this is the sound of those threads being wrapped in velvet and soaked in honey!
“Kar Sych,” therefore, averages out somewhere between the two extremes—a sort of shoegazing, dream-state slice of punky indie-pop music—a sentence that in itself shows just how pointless genre tags and sonic pigeon-holes actually are when dealing with bands like Mellowpunk, bands doing something interesting, exciting, forward-thinking, bands that make music that matters.
Pop fans will love its sublime and accessible moves, rockers, the song’s core punky grooves, indie kids will get the clever sonics and its cool danceability, and any fans of discerning and well-wrought new music are bound to fall in love with it immediately. But what would you expect from a band hailing from Providence, RI, the town that gave us such forward-thinking and eclectic bands as Throwing Muses, The Low Anthem and Les Savy Fav.
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