A harmonious psych-rock appeal lingers throughout “Show Me,” a new track from Austin-based band Personality Contest that succeeds in melding psychedelia with a Beach Boys-inspired soaring pop component. The “show me,” vocal beckoning ventures seamlessly into twangy guitar delights past the mid-point, embracing the psychedelic spectrum with the heavier guitar tones and textured production, while the radiant vocals enamor with a power-pop radiance.
“Someday your light will fade away and you will be alone,” they let out at one point, moving cohesively into crunchier guitar pulses and mingling vocal layers. A sweltering guitar solo dazzles as the final minute approaches. “Show Me” is an enveloping overall success from Personality Contest. who refer to the track as speaking “to an older generation about the fact that they are knowingly leaving us something worse than what they had.” They continue: “It encourages our generation to reject their leadership and take things over for ourselves.”
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
