Trickling, jangly introspections and an enjoyable sense of momentum persist across “Doe Under Headlights,” a newly released track from Max Threat. Reminding fondly of The Wrens in its escalating guitars and “we were driving in the pines” scene-setting, the track navigates with infectious allure — cathartic in the “coming back home” vocal outpouring, and also in the subdued guitar hypnotics during the “when I left you high and dry” admissions. Swooning backing vocal elements — lovably akin to The Pixies — also compel there. “Doe Under Headlights” is a sturdy, contagiously building-up rock success from Max Threat.
The track comes via the artist’s upcoming album, When I Die, They Will Bloom. Of the album’s creative process, Max Threat explains: “I committed myself to isolation and ritual. I wandered around in the orchard for half the album. When I cut the thread, digitally speaking, I was feeling optimistic again. A flood of around fifty songs came in over three or four months that I kept to myself for a while.”
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
The track is also featured in the genre-based, best-of Spotify compilation Emerging Indie Rock.
