The Dandys channel inside churn right into a charged, uncooked rush of power and emotion of their liberating anthem “Gums,” an unapologetic indie rock fever dream full of fireside and fervor.

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Epic doesn’t even start to explain The Dandys’ fifth profession single.

“Gums” is a visceral, unstable stress cooker; a searing sonic meteor, arriving to us simply seconds earlier than affect. Heavy, hearty, and completely hard-hitting, it’s the intoxicating outpouring from a fast-rising Aussie band able to take our ears – after which the world – by storm. The Dandys channel inside churn right into a charged, uncooked rush of power and emotion in  “Gums,” an unapologetic indie rock fever dream full of fireside and fervor.

My gums are bleeding within the sink
My crooked smile I gotta repair my tooth
However I don’t assume I bought the time
Or the endurance to get it proper

My fingers are shaky, knees are weak
Possibly it’s my iron deficiency
My head is spinnin everytime
I rise up I feel I’ll keep inside

I really feel like I’m drowning
I wanna go house

That is various music at its most searing and its most seductive: Atwood Journal is proud to be premiering “Gums,” the most recent and ultimate single taken off The Dandys’ forthcoming debut EP, Intercourse and Feuds (out September 15). Arriving on the heels of this previous June’s “Smile Extra” – one other cinematic, high-octane upheaval in its personal proper – “Gums” is the fifth tune ever launched by The Dandys, and an identity-defining second for the younger Brisbane/Meanjin-based band. They describe it as a liberating anthem, urging us to “let go of life’s burdens and benefit from the second.”

From its sludgy, sluggish beginnings to its sped-up, electrifying refrain and the head-spinning sonics that accompany it, “Gums” is a cathartic tidal wave of soul-stirring sound and turbulent feeling.

And The Dandys – comprised of Mads Protheroe, Felix Fogarty, Henry Schultz, and Nick Keogh-Peel – stand on the helm of that ship, guiding us via the turmoil of on a regular basis dwelling and the balancing act all of us aspire to realize. As Protheroe tells it, “Gums” is about releasing the stress.

“Everyone knows rising up is overwhelming,” she shares. “So is reserving dental checkups and managing your persistent iron deficiency. It’s concerning the mindset of wanting self-improvement, however missing the motivation or want to do the mundane. Largely although, ‘Gums’ is a observe that offers you permission to take that stress off and have an excellent time. It’s probably not that deep.”

Emphatic, overdriven guitars and pounding drums churn out a sluggish, heavy beat as “Gums” will get underway. The Dandys emulate the load of life’s stress on this hypnotic entrance and of their opening verse, as Protheroe sings of bleeding gums and crooked smiles, looming chores and add-ons to an already stacked to-do listing. “However I don’t assume I bought the time or the endurance to get it proper,” she sings sizzling on the mic, evoking a really actual paralysis so many people expertise on an all-too frequent foundation. “I rise up, I feel I’ll keep inside,” she sings, resolved to her state of inertia.

The depth of this expertise involves life within the “Gums” refrain because the band pace up for a breathtakingly explosive, feverish refrain. “I really feel like I’m drowning,” Protheroe sings, her voice an anchor in an more and more stormy sonic sea. “I wanna go house.”

It’s a fascinating cacophony: An invigorating, immersive, and impassioned eruption we are able to really feel in our bones.

Whereas it might not be “that deep” (their phrases, not ours), the band however dove deeper into their new observe with us.

“‘Gums’ is a tune about being overwhelmed by the mundane to the purpose the place you simply do nothing,” Mads Protheroe tells Atwood Journal. “After I wrote it, I’d simply completed studying a ebook that talks about this inside creature known as ‘the resistance,’ and it’s principally that voice in your head that tells you to place off that two-minute process that’s going to make you are feeling so significantly better. I’m talkin’ small issues right here, not life altering moments. Actually making your mattress, reserving appointments or placing the washing on. These day-to-day actions that simply had me in a chokehold.”

“I feel ‘Gums’ was what got here out of me being so sick of myself pushing aside these fundamental life duties that I simply made enjoyable of how ridiculous I used to be being,” she provides. “So out got here this sluggish, grime-y verse the place I simply known as myself out on my shit, then adopted it up by the quick paced psychedelic disco refrain to type of signify the moments the place you do get that burst of power and clear your room in 30 seconds flat.”

“Every little thing concerning the tune is actually how I expertise that push and pull of motivation. It’s by far my favorite tune to play reside – it’s so enjoyable, and seeing the gang transfer with the tempo adjustments and snicker with the foolish lyrics at all times makes me so comfortable. Like they get it fully.”

I feel I’m thinkin manner an excessive amount of
About your physique and your velvet tongue
Runnin circles spherical my thoughts
Oh however I may by no means do ya proper

I really feel like I’m drownin’
I wanna go house

An simple showstopper, “Gums” is a standout on The Dandys’ early catalog, in addition to an exhilarating take a look at what’s to come back from their forthcoming debut EP.

“Intercourse and Feuds is principally all about rising up and studying how to answer all of the issues life inevitably throws your manner,” Protheroe explains. “As at all times, you may count on some unapologetic tongue in cheek songwriting, loads of angle and an entire lot of power. In saying that, there’s additionally some actually weak tracks on the document that we’re actually excited to share. As an entire although, it’s a snapshot of our first 12 months as a band. It’s what we felt and skilled and we hope it makes you are feeling one thing too.”

Be part of The Dandys on their sonic and emotional rollercoaster and stream “Gums” solely on Atwood Journal! Their debut EP Intercourse and Feuds is out September 15.

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