Chase Nova Band Dig Into Capitolism and Experimental Groove with their New Single
A brand new single out today from Chase Nova Band delivers quite a heavy-handed sentiment that I feel like a lot of us can feel when we listen closely to those lyrics.
"Here Comes The Guillotine" goes over a lot, but focuses plenty on the fact that we do live lives, but so much of it is taken up by working. We work, work, and work some more, and a lot of us do it just to get by these days.
Yes, we live, we love, we have good times, we have a life. But, working takes up such a large part of it all that we can't help the question if we were really meant to be doing this.
Let's be honest, we know we weren't. We know we're not here to sit there and work for money so that we can eat food and live in a house or an apartment.
We need to pay for a car so that we can drive back to work and make money so that we can drive that car back home again.
It certainly feels like quite a vicious cycle at times, and it certainly is.
This track picks a lot of that in such a unique and articulate sense lyrically that we can't turn away from it.
It's so incredibly connective and relatable on that level.
Now, what does the music sound like in terms of a soundscape when it's got such a sentiment attached to it?
I'll tell you.
This track is undeniably experimental, a little psychedelic, and loads of fun. The whole thing does have a great message behind it, but it does come through pretty light-hearted in its own way.
This is a rock single that blends psych rock with alternative and indie to create this robust sort of atmosphere and not hold back from layering loads of great guitar work and outside-the-box songwriting.
The track has a great drive that comes from the drums, it's nice, right in the pocket, and provides a massive and sort of deep-pocketed groove with all kinds of great symbol work rolling in between them, giving sort of ghost notes, I suppose they would be.
I love this because it adds a lot of action and liveliness to the percussion element of the song. It does feel like a lot of the rest of the band sort of pushes off of that, in a sense.
You also have a little bit of what feels like an Egyptian sort of melody, and I really like that aspect of it too, because it makes the song feel more spacious in a weird way.
One of my favorite aspects about this track is that there is a deep-toned guitar that's got this sort of decimated wah-like effect on it that flows through the track and gives it a little bit of grittiness.
Underneath that, you have an amazing bass guitar that slaps along and plays all kinds of cool melodies and walks throughout the track, and it really adds more depth to how the song comes through.
Because the bass player is slapping so much, it adds a whole different rhythm in the underbelly of the song, and you can hear that throughout everything.
The guitars pull off some of those cool Egyptian-style riffs, and as the song unfolds, you have female backing vocals, or at least it sounds like that, flowing through the ether of the song, and that makes it really spacious and cinematic as well.
The main vocalist is outstanding because he's really giving a lot of gusto. He's sort of passionate about the sentiment of the song, and so you hear emotion coming through, but it's not overdone. It does feel a bit theatrical, but I really enjoyed that aspect.
This is a song that really gives tons of tone. From all the different guitars, vocals, and bass guitar, you're getting a lot to chew on.
Going back to the percussion, I feel like it's not just the driving force behind the song, but also something that brightens it up.
Like I bet you did earlier, it's actually got a great group, so the song is super danceable.
There's never a dull moment, especially with the drumming throughout this entire song.
By the end of the track, everything gets super intense, everything is sort of full throttle, everyone is belting louder, playing harder, and the song is very sort of lush and high energy.
I like how they were able to bring up that intensity throughout the song and then by the end of it, let it sort of explode while the singer goes off about how 'they're coming for me, and they're coming for you'.
It's only semi-metaphoric because again, it's kind of about capitalism and how we are bogged down by those who want to keep us where we are. It's not a mistake that everything costs as much as it does these days.
This song displays such a great sense of urgency in terms of that sentiment, and they still do it with a bit of brightness and a lot of addictive melodic drive.
This song just dropped, and you don't want to miss it!
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