Rob Eberle has always been adept at writing the most contagious of pop songs and then embedding them in bigger, more anthemic, indie and rock-infused sounds. And never was that more true than with his latest single, “Lying with the Enemy.”
Although starting in understated pop pastures, setting up a groove through minimal beats and rhythmic guitars, once the chorus kicks in, we find ourselves in bigger, brasher, and bolder rock territories. And if ever there was a better way of building a brilliant dynamic than wandering between the verses ‘ accessible pop and anthemic rock of the chorus, I have yet to hear it.
And, it also reminds us that genres are there to be ignored, or at least their boundaries are. As Eberle storms such sonic barricades, blasts his way through old musical demarcations, and swerves expectations and existing comfort zones, you can hear the future of pop and pop-adjacent music being written.
While the song lyrics address the fall out of a relationship that has run its course, a reflective look back at what is not to be, a song littered with broken hearts and no slight feeling of resentment, it is the most euphoric and energized thing that you will hear this week, this month…perhaps even this year.
Why get all depressed about a failed relationship when you can pour all that angst and emotion into the biggest pop tune of the year?
