Failure Machine – Wake Drake Skate (SNAFU Family Records)
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| Failure Machine - Wake Drake Skate |
Release Date: Out Now
Take these four songs at face
value and you’ve got a soul-punk EP that lasts less than ten minutes and it’s
high-octane, up-tempo fun. Then give it a second listen and you’ll realise that
half of this EP was originally penned by sweater wearing R&B star Drake
while the other half is written by LA garage punkers FIDLAR. Yeah, this is
happening, so strap yourself in because Reno’s finest are back, it’s Failure
Machine time.
Things kick off with that most
recognisable of Drake tunes, ‘Hotline Bling’, but this time it sounds like it’s
being ripped a new one by the Blues Brothers and that sounds amazing. Take the
chilled vibes out of a song and replace them with a little aggression,
desperation and a horn section and suddenly you’ve got a party going on –
somebody bring me a keg. Then we switch to FIDLAR’s ‘No Waves’, opening with
the lines “I feel, I feel like a cokehead, I feel, I feel like I can’t get
drunk no more cause I’m on the floor looking for some matches to cook up a
score”. Then the 100 mph guitars start and Spencer Kilpatrick’s
razor-blades-in-a-blender vocals kick up a notch – who has a length of hose?
Back to Drake for the Blues rattle of ‘Energy’ – “I got
enemies, got a lotta enemies” – and those horns shine through as the guitars
jangle and the drums thud superbly which must suck if you’re Drake, to hear
your own songs played 100 times better than you ever managed. Cuckold much? Let’s
finish up on FIDLAR’s ‘Cheap Beer’ which is basically the sound of a house
party tipping over the edge in to chaos as pictures fall from the wall, windows
smash and somebody somewhere is getting it on with somebody they probably
shouldn’t be getting it on with. There’s a sax solo and then I threw up a
little but the keg is empty and the party is roasting so I ain’t complaining.
Are you? ARE YOU???
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