Launched yesterday, 4 October, ‘Thorazine Bender’ is the most recent single from heavy pop duo, Immediate Smile, who’re out of Athens Georgia. The observe is from their new EP, ‘4 x 2’, launched on the similar time.
Comprising guitarist Greg Phoenix and drummer Erin Berry, the pair shaped their band in 2013, and draw inspiration from the music of 60s and 70s pop, with clear psych, traditional rock, and prog influences.
New single, ‘Thorazine Bender’, comes speeding out the gate with a heavy obligation psych sound, transporting the listener again to the Nineteen Sixties; shut your eyes and you may be forgiven for pondering it was genuinely from that period, fairly than a contemporary tackle the sound. The duo give one another room to precise their skills – similar to Greg’s “Shadows-esque” solos, and Erin’s frenetic pounding of drums and cymbals. It is a pair who is aware of that success is about permitting the opposite to shine and figuring out when to do it themselves.
The music video that accompanies ‘Thorazine Bender’ is equally as trippy, mixing footage of the duo performing within the studio with archival clips of scientific experiments, newspaper clippings about genetic engineering, public service movies, and cartoons. It’s sinister and darkish, and all of the whereas Phoenix and Berry are giving it socks, blasting it out for slightly below 3 minutes. The brevity of the music doesn’t detract from it in any approach; actually, it most likely has fairly the other impact, in that it will get its message throughout succinctly and powerfully, with none added fluff.
As for the title of the observe, ‘Thorazine Bender’ – it’s named for an anti-psychotic drug, primarily used to deal with psychotic problems similar to schizophrenia, but additionally the remedy of bipolar dysfunction, extreme behavioral issues in youngsters together with these with ADHD, nausea and vomiting, anxiousness earlier than surgical procedure, and hiccups that don’t enhance following different measures. Wow. If one was on a “Thorazine bender”, they could expertise involuntary, repetitive physique actions a sense of inside restlessness and lack of ability to remain nonetheless. It’s becoming due to this fact that the video has a scatty, disjointed vibe to it, giving the impression of what it’d really really feel like.
You possibly can watch the music video for ‘Thorazine Bender’ beneath, and discover out extra about Immediate Smile and their music on-line on their official web site, Fb, Instagram, YouTube, and Bandcamp.
