Austin-based quintet Whalers unveil a climactic charmer with “Love & Drugs,” where twangy guitars and suave vocals ascend into a clanging emotional ferocity.
The band describes the lyrical focus as a “reminiscence of two people meeting, and navigating their time together through shared debauchery.” Such accounts are reflected in the a particular lyrical drive — “we were young, and we fell in love with drugs,” — that appears intermittently and then concludes the track with a rousing fervor. The track has undergone a variety of transformations, from banjo-led acoustic balladry to a jazz-inspired cut with heavy bass swinging, and ends up as a successful rock-forward production.
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
