I probably said as much when talking about Yacovelli’s previous single, “Red Eye,” but this self-confessed Nu York-neo-grunge-punkster makes music that seems to freely wander the musical timeline. Not because the music itself necessarily fits all eras but because the attitude does. In every age, there have always been underground music makers who flout the rules and thwart expectations, certainly mainstream ones, who play by their own rules and understand the deft art of blending noise and music into sonic art.
Yacovelli is just the modern-day torch bearer for all those garage bands and punk pioneers, grunge scenesters, and alternative rockers, of previous times, those who have formed the darker, cooler underbelly of every musical era for the last century, from those early blues rebels and jazz junkies to today’s grassroots subversives!
And “Doppelganger” speaks to all of that, a song built on the depth charge bass lines, muscular melodics, incendiary riffs, and unpolished drums that rattle and pound. But, as full of sharp edges and abrasive textures as it is, melody rules; it is full of low-slung groove, punchy, fist-in-the-air energy, sing-along, gang vocals, squalling sonics, and fun, fun, fun! A call to arms? Perhaps. A call to get down and boogie? Without doubt.
In a sanitized artistic world where even rock music seems to have lost much of its bite, “Doppelganger” is an act of raw, rock ‘n’ roll, rabble-rousing, riotous rebellion—and lord knows we are overdue for a bit of that!
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