The opening track on Ryan Shephard‘s debut album, Head Games, “Atom Bomb” is a fervent rock success that pairs psychedelic introspection and raucously enjoyable tones with cohesive immersion. The Chicago-based artist excels with a momentum-filled sound here, navigating from initial guitar crunches into rousing twangs and a sating vocal emergence. “Screen on my phone it says unknown, when you call these days,” he lets out, conveying a sense of moving on that continues into the sating second half — into “another nuclear winter, knowing I won’t miss ya.”
“Atom Bomb” is one of many successes on Head Games, streaming in full below:
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
