Whippets‘ new track “These Woods” finds the Madison, WI-based power trio sharpening their post-punk and grunge inclinations with wiry guitar interplay, propulsive bass, and Bobby Hussy’s dynamic vocal delivery. The track appears on No Skulls, the band’s sophomore album, which builds on a history of garage-rock releases and collaborations across the Midwest underground scene.
Excelling with a production spanning from bass-fronted bounces to fervent guitar embraces, “These Woods” rides with a constant sense of momentum throughout. Resonant guitar twangs and a playful bass line interact to start, punctuated by pulses of distortion-friendly warmth before an excitable vocal emergence. “It’s impossible to keep track, what you lack,” Hussy’s vocals captivate, tonally dynamic throughout in aligning with the range of rhythm-fronted verses and escalated guitar-forward sequences.
01:20 marks a striking shift, where vocal aspirations of self-betterment pair with angular guitar tones, embracing a sort of art-rock and post-punk cohesion comparative to the first minute’s more alt-rock vigor. “I’m just trying to clean myself up today,” the vocals stir there, recurring as the track approaches its final minute. Theatrical vocals and heavy guitar riffs dazzle in that ascent to the three-minute mark, with the “no one can save the mess I made” laments converging wonderfully with the delectably raucous guitar tones. “These Woods” is an enlivening rock success from Whippets.
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
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