Atlanta’s Upchuck are again with a brand new single Freaky and announcement of their upcoming Ty Segall produced second album. It’s a biting punch of scuzzy storage spiced with a bouncing bassline, tons of soiled suggestions and an entire lot of raucous enjoyable. Simply try the downright bizarre video! Learn on…

Channeling the velocity of youth and the heaviness of a fleshy, lived life in equal proportion, Upchuck’s second LP, Chew the Hand That Feeds, is a Trojan Horse par excellence, craftily smuggling in waves of sentimental emotion and intelligent pop songwriting underneath a veil of pulsing rhythms and scorching riffs. What binds Upchuck collectively is a purity of intention, an natural loyalty to a thick knot of uncalculated friendships, struggles, and wishes. These are songs in regards to the pleasure of continuous to stay, songs that discover one another within the rush of a crushing actuality, propelling the listener onward in the direction of a collective launch, nonetheless transient it might final. Themes of surviving by means of the evening, youth-blinded love, low-cost champagne soaked back-alley events, and chaotic avenue protests are subsumed underneath a single unifying thread: the wants we’ve got for each other, our shared starvation for connection. In a world saturated with arbitrary guidelines and paper-thin moralism, Upchuck supply freedom by means of sensation, a sort of unserious transcendence discovered by means of the swirl of our bodies melting into each other within the ardour of dance. With Chew the Hand That Feeds, Upchuck isn’t attempting to inform anybody learn how to stay. Moderately, they’re merely looking for a strategy to make life extra price residing for each themselves and their pals—if the music compels you to maneuver, you would possibly as properly contemplate your self their pal too.

Shortly after the discharge of their debut album Sense Your self, Upchuck absconded to Southern California to file Chew the Hand That Feeds, enlisting the manufacturing skills of Ty Segall and the ethereal reprieve of his secluded Topanga Canyon dwelling studio. Upchuck credit Segall, who recorded your entire file stay to tape over the span of 5 days, with serving to to raise the preparations of their second file to daring new heights—followers of Segall’s in depth catalog will undoubtedly acknowledge the shadow of his artistic contact in Chew the Hand That Feeds’ commanding, layered drum polyrhythms, tasteful use of oddball results, and fuzzed out, every-guitar-pushed-into-the-red ethos.

All the identical, remaining credit score for Upchuck’s evolution from Sense Your self to Chew the Hand That Feeds have to be paid to the band itself. Following the discharge of their debut LP, Upchuck embarked upon a break-neck string of stay exhibits, touring alongside the likes of Segall’s Fuzz, Amyl and the Sniffers, Destructive Method, OFF!, and Subhumans. The razor tight focus of Chew the Hand That Feeds was cast within the fireplace of those stay exhibits, talking on to the facility of their in-person presence—these are songs meant to be heard pressed up towards a barricade, blasted by means of dimed guitar amps positioned so near your ears that you could virtually attain out and contact them.

RIYL: Amyl & the Sniffers, Black Flag, Thee Oh Sees, Unhealthy Brains, MC5

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