Red Maker Drop A Fuzz Tone Banger
A brand new single release from Red Maker just dropped and this single manages to bring together some of the best elements of grunge, desert rock, fuzz tone-driven garage rock, and so much more all rolled into this one fat track that ends up reading a bit of a psychedelic undertone with tripped out, slightly delayed effects on certain things along with that really driving guitar tone that pushes the song into this sonically graceful soundscape.
Boring is a track that certainly doesn't hold back in the way of creating something with fewer walls or boundaries than the norm. This does indeed mesh a series of genres together and utilizes a slew of influences to create something slightly familiar but also a little off the wall.
Let's just start with that guitar tone. The guitars are everything on this track. They fill the space, come through thick but with enough high-end so that they feel crunchy and fuzzy, and have enough grit so that it feels like that classic garage and grunge blend; however, the mean riff itself is sort of colorful in a way.
This is a great blend because you have that sort of pop undertone blended in with that dirty grunge or garage feel, and those two things managed to go together like puzzle pieces here.
You never really guess that these two things go hand in hand the way they do in this track, but they just do it right.
This is a song that's got its own atmosphere altogether, and I admire that about it.
Listening to it does give me tiny bouts of nostalgia because they are beckoning a certain sort of underground 90s alternative rock that has that refreshing approach because they're bringing all these other attributes to the table as well.
The song is driving enough to feel like a live performance in its own way. I love that about the song because it pushes that energy level to a place where you don't really expect it to go.
There are experimental and, as I mentioned earlier, slightly psychedelic rock approaches. Later on in the track, there is a guitar solo that's actually amazing, and you don't expect it to happen, but when it does, it just feels awesome. This solo brings a huge brightness to the table and comes right at the perfect moment.
This part of the song has a lot of delay dripping from it, so you hear a lot of the notes of the solo sort of overlapping each other, and that helps give it the trip doubt sort of effect I mentioned before.
So, as you can see, there are no walls built around this track. This is freeing, open, it rocks hard and has a great energy, but it doesn't conform to one exact genre or another.
It sort of does its own thing, and you can tell it was a blast to track.
It actually feels almost like this whole thing was recorded live on the floor and everyone involved was feeding off of each other the entire time, giving it that whole, alive and breathing feel.
I dig that about the song because the energy is a huge attribute as to why it's so addictive, and that energy it gives off is actually infectious.
The blending of color and edginess was everything on the single and I feel like the whole thing really speaks volumes for the band because it showcases how they're able to put something out there that feels awesome to listen to and takes those different styles, approaches, and genres, to breed an atmosphere that sort of feels like the wrong thing.
Again, it's like a bright, fun, colorful, experimental pop grunge with just enough grit to have a garage tone and its underbelly.
The vocal approach works amazingly for this song as it brings in this fresh texture and tone to the already full-bodied aesthetic and balances things out super well.
The drumming and bass guitar definitely give a lot of the rest of the band something to feed off of. They add plenty of drive to the song, and this ended up being something that intrigued me a lot. I listened to it and immediately thought to myself how this band would be awesome to see live.
Lucky for me, there's actually a live album in their catalog, and it's amazing. There's actually quite a huge catalog that these guys have under their belt, and everything is pretty much more than worth listening to, to say the least.
I would definitely dive into this, especially if you're into driving, grungy, pop-coated heavy rock.
Check the status as soon as you can and see what it does for you.