Any band only a few years into their story that has already received the thumbs up from The K’s and The Sherlocks, and has opened for Toploader and Pentire, must be doing something right. Give “Halfway” a spin, and you realize that they are doing everything right.
Perhaps the song’s easy accessibility stems from its birth in the most organic and traditional of ways: an idea at a sound check, a riff that took on a life of its own, a song that seemed more channeled than created. Sometimes it’s best not to think things over; sometimes you have to go where the music takes you, which makes this the perfect musical vehicle for lyrics that capture that idea of being slightly lost, unfocused, stuck between drive and doubt, that place where you just have to go with the flow.
It’s indie music built on the genre’s finest traditions – groove, momentum, contagion, cool – yet it steps confidently into the future. “Halfway” echoes so many over those great early naughties bands of that era’s guitar band renaissance, but it shimmers with a freshness and modernity that place it firmly in the present.
We keep hearing that “guitar music is dead,”, that the musical world is all about the digital, that ones and zeros are the new rock and roll.
Yeah, right!
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