A New Single from Thurber Mingus Has Arrived
If ever there was a song that automatically creates a visual in your head of slinging through an old western movie, dirt kicking up, horizon on the road ahead, an old rickety town, and an endless but addictive swagger, the latest release from Thurber Mingus just delivered it.
"Gold Digger" presents itself with such an animated approach as the vocals have a deep-toned, attitude-riddled approach, and this sort of fuzz tone distortion or amp simulator effect on it, and this creates the grittiness that it's going for.
Grit is a great word for the underbelly of this song. There is a great amount of it coming through, but that's part of the aesthetic of the entire thing, and it works like a charm.
Not only do you have this vintage twang in those guitar tones, but you have a stomping rhythm that becomes the song's staple, and the whole atmosphere of it is so thick that it pulls you right in.
The track is definitely from a perspective that gets pretty descriptive in terms of the lyrics and comes through with a message.
It's a political track, and I'm not giving everything away, but you would certainly have to listen to it to pick up on all of that. The way that the lyrics are delivered does paint a great picture, and there's a slight haunt to it all, which I really enjoyed, but that, again, comes with the mood and the aesthetic of the track and music itself.
I love what this song creates. It creates a whole world around you while you listen to it and has such a certain kind of raw energy that almost feels like the air of a live performance or like you just watched the scene of a film.
There's a vast kind of undertone to it, and that dusty, dirt-kicking road is presented in great detail.
The vocals just push that gritty element to the maximum, and I absolutely adore this because it solidifies the vibe of the song, along with how things get a little bit more robust at the choruses.
During those verses, you're definitely paying attention to the lyrics. The music gives you enough space to focus on just that for a lot of the time, but it also has a heavy-handed groove and that forward-moving flow, like a train.
Every element of this song pushes the next. The drumming is the drive from which the guitars follow. That bass guitar tone alone is outstanding and a huge piece of the puzzle when it comes to getting the tonality of the song to feel right.
All of the elements of this song come together like puzzle pieces, and it's got so much character embedded in its veins that you can't turn away from it.
For me, its character is one of the biggest attributes. The sentiment or message behind the song is pretty strong, but again, you'll have to listen to it for yourself to really pick up on everything it's actually saying and portraying; however, the way it's done is just oozing with personality and character.
This is important for a track like this because it has to come through with that kind of gusto or energy, and this track does all that with charm.
Turn to the song, the more intense it grows. By the time you get to the last section of the track, the drums are just slamming with more open crashes and rides, the guitars are hit harder, and everything is just intensified.
There's more going on in the background in terms of vocals and textures, and everything about the track sort of grows into this point.
This is a perfect example of a track that is built with a certain thematic ideal behind it, but also delivers a heavy-handed message and does so with that charm or swagger, if you will.
This song nailed the aesthetic that it was going for from top to bottom, and I think it takes a bit of vision to be able to pull this off the way it was done here.
I would consider this a sort of western psych-rock single that breaks boundaries ever so slightly and pushes itself to create this rustic tonality that just feels good when you listen to it.
Take a listen to this track as soon as you can and see exactly what I mean.
