Seattle’s PRETTY AWKWARD have been constructing a loyal and vociferous fanbase over the previous couple of years, and they’re serving them a set of fine vibes on their eleven-song studio album Get Bizarre. There’s no congruent act which you can measure this band towards. Nicholas Wiggins and Austin Held are blazing their very own quirky and rambunctious path by way of as we speak’s musical panorama and are intent on their viewers having an satisfying time. It doesn’t transfer them, nevertheless, to pander to the bottom frequent denominator. They faucet into the tenor of our occasions with out sacrificing their particular person voices and the songs rising from that owe no particular allegiances. They’re writing songs primarily for themselves and people tunes crackle with the mandatory expertise to deliver you alongside for the journey.

“Grasp Out” is the primary observe and establishes the band’s id. Skilled music followers/listeners will likely be impressed with the clear imaginative and prescient Held and Wiggins have for this music. It leaps out at you. Their pop inclinations are obvious with out ever sounding prefer it dumbs down the general bundle and there’s a touch of orchestration in the way in which they method the songwriting that you simply don’t hear from different bands of this ilk.

“Misfits” was beforehand launched as a single is an early peak on the album. Held, Wiggins, and the opposite members share songwriting credit for this observe and its cohesion is obvious. It’s a first-rate candidate, as properly, for a live performance quantity because it gives a possibility for the viewers to unite behind a first-class refrain. PRETTY AWKWARD is astute with this particular track – it’s the type of tune that creates a way of group.

There’s a template for a lot of of those songs. They lay the muse with probing, even playful, introductions earlier than launching into the primary physique of the observe. “Get Bizarre”, nevertheless, reshuffles the deck. They take off into the track’s foremost verse motif seconds into the track whereas nonetheless retaining that exploratory high quality. It’s a special tackle the band’s musical imaginative and prescient and eschews the big-screen choruses which might be a trademark of most of the album’s different tunes.

“Unhealthy Behavior” has one of many album’s most compelling rhythms. You’ll be able to’t play down the modern sheen fueling the songs. The percussion of this and different tracks has attraction whereas anchoring the performances with stable fundamentals. Pairing these rhythms, steeped in hip-hop, with a pointy pop sense makes for an invigorating hear. It actually comes alive.

“Fort Partitions” will knock you again in your seat when it hits its stride. It virtually burns at some factors and picks you up in a method that few of the album’s different nice songs can match. It’ll be a favourite for a lot of. The imagery that varieties the track’s basis is very properly chosen. “Larger” is one other fiery efficiency. It swirls and throbs, the choice and digital components reworking the reduce into an anthem that possesses you from starting to finish.

Their present single “Woozy” has an infectious, sing-song high quality that may provides you a constant contact excessive…. It’ll depart you swooning. PRETTY AWKWARD has discovered a seemingly inexhaustible components that blends Various Rock & Pop that checks off all of the bins with out ever sounding manufactured. Their honesty and directness are breathtaking. Get Bizarre takes you on a enjoyable and endlessly shocking voyage you’ll be glad to take.  

Mindy McCall