When you’ve adopted different rock in any respect previously few months, you already know one thing about The Sextape, whose status for distributing huge riffs and killer beats alongside shaking vocal harmonies is internationally identified.

This summer season, the Russia-based band is again with a brand new single “Queen of the Fools,” and though there’s maybe by no means been fairly as distinctive a time to be recording new music as the current, they don’t sound shaken by present occasions conserving their dwelling nation within the information. The music video additional demonstrates how dedicated this group is to creating music that’s about greater than themselves, and whether or not you dig The Sextape or not, it’s a launch I’d let you know to go check out earlier than the season is over.

“Queen of the Fools” positively spotlights the connection between its vocals and the riffs greater than it does any of the opposite parts within the music, however this doesn’t imply it’s not a streamlined observe – I’d even say it’s one of many smoother numbers on this band’s discography. They don’t attempt to cover what their aesthetical objectives are on this single; if something, I feel The Sextape is producing one thing of their newest work that stands to reassert who they wish to be each in and out of doors of the studio. They’ve acquired a extra centered power regarding how the phrases are a direct extension of the music and vice versa, which is one thing that may take a complete lifetime to good.

The music video for “Queen of the Fools” is conceptually simplistic by my measurement, which permits for the pure colour inside the music to turn out to be the only real object of our affection. There’s quite a lot of substance to this music that goes properly past the phrases, however the surreal imagery accompanying the verses here’s a good added contact that doesn’t go excessive in any respect – the alternative, from the place I sit. After we’re given an opportunity to listen to the intricacies simply inside the melodic ascending and descending of the guitar melodies on this single, there’s no dismissing it as one other launch from a band whose method doesn’t want heavy augmentation.

The Sextape has extra to supply than that, and you may’t deny it after listening to this music.

I haven’t listened to an entire album from these guys but, however the buzz being generated on the energy of “Queen of the Fools” has me keen to listen to what they’re going to sound like of their totality. There are fairly a couple of attention-grabbing rock bands rising from the shadows of the European underground for the time being, however this act is proving that they’ve the stuff to maintain up with a youthful crowd – if not eclipse them in a couple of areas of inventive maturity. There are nonetheless ways in which I feel The Sextape goes to develop, however for what I search for in an unfiltered rock sound, theirs is a top-tier trendy contender whatever the materials in query.

Mindy McCall