Swelling from moody, jangly rock allure into anthemic ardor, “Dastardly” is a stellar track from tenbeforetwo. Initially a solo vehicle for Tripsitters’ Michael Moffitt, the project impresses with a gripping rock sound across the newly released EP Fun While It Lasted. Its second track, “Dastardly” unfolds through dream-pacing verses with a post-punk rhythmic tint, and into a replay-inducing central hook: “She’s so dastardly, she paints a picture that I can’t unsee.” The crunching guitars and intensifying vocals invigorate there, cementing the preceding momentum with a wholly sating culmination.
Stream the excellent EP in full:
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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.
