A stirring rocker from Los Angeles-based artist hummer, “Big Fish” ventures seamlessly from hazy, debonair rock intrigue into a scorching ardency. “Living gets easy for the big fish,” Aaron Bernards’ sweltering vocals let out in the riveting chorus, moving between those bursts of emotion and “keep you up, just for a little while” suaveness throughout the verses. The track thoroughly commands in its dynamic tonal variety, between the momentum-filled ascent and blistering, distortion-packed mixture of alternative and grunge in the delectable central hook.
The band caught our ears with two tracks in 2023 — the excellent “Hollow Eyes 0_0” and “edge of the earth” — and continue to captivate with “Big Fish.” Bernards mentions an upcoming EP and a newly established band, with upcoming shows in LA. He also elaborates more on the track, below:
“This is one of those songs that came out of nowhere. I walked into my studio one afternoon and plugged in my guitar, turned on this old fuzz pedal and played the main riff. A few hours later, I had a fully realized demo. I’d been pretty angry about some personal stuff, so I guess I incorporated those feelings along with idea of the world being ran by people with no moral… How sometimes it seems like the only way to be “successful” is to be a shark.”
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
