Other Americans - "Paranoid Fiction"
OTHER AMERICANS - “PARANOID FICTION”
Other Americans have created a reality one wishes they could make home in their new record, Paranoid Fiction. In a time absent of live shows, the album’s intensity recalls all the head-thrashing-dance-inducing-electro-rock-tinged nights. Although this is all just fiction, the Kansas City-based band has delivered us tangible tunes -- ones worth hanging on to, tight.
Inhaling sweet-smelling synth, we are first introduced to the title track. It has the kind of atmospheric but strong vocals that you will find yourself rolling down every car window with the music so loud you make the possibility of blowing out your speakers a very real one.
Making you feel as though computer love is possible, “Kink Wave” makes you feel thankful that you live in the digital age. Percussion persuades you to keep looking ahead and confident that you can ride the waves until you get where you’re going.
“Driver” is darker, but still dreamy with a deep depth carefully crafted when polished bass and hard-core guitar intermingle in the passenger seat. Despite being the longest song on the album, you will want the driver to keep on driving.
“Goin’ fast, like a train”, “Chug” is the sweltering blues-tinged anthem every rock-and-roll star wants to play at the sold-out show of their dreams. High energy coupled with determination only an outlaw could muster, it’ll give you the confidence to chug each and every drop of worry and feel stronger for it.
Industrial sounding gongs bring us to “Breaking Even” where the instrumentality builds upon itself constructing an all-consuming tone. About a fourth into the track, we are met with a tape-rewinding, taking us back to where we began. Progress is not linear after all.
Lastly, “Unsung” is a good representation of the entire album itself: ever-kinetic. The heavy distorted guitar is too good to cloud the sound with the prospect of saving your ears with earplugs. You’ll want to experience this one to the fullest, pure sound.
Additionally, the record contains two remixes. A 90’s White Label Remix of “Unsung” and a Mensa Deathsquad Massive Cheeba remix of “Breaking Even”. That being said, the reality of it all is that there is no shortage of head-thrashing-dance-inducing-electro-rock-tinged tunes to fill your nights and grant you the reality you so desire. Other Americans have given us a gift with their new LP Paranoid Fiction. Let’s roll down the windows and get going.
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Review by ::
Skylar Rochelle
Manor Co-Organizer & Blog Editor
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