On top of all this visual appeal, “Joker” has meaningful lyrics inspired by the author’s struggles with mental illness, and a solid beat achieved by experienced hip-hop producer Jerry Wonda. For those looking to extend the Halloween-themed fun past October 31st, a solid solution may just have arisen.
“The new single from Lauren Scott-Phillips is a gorgeous, folksy ode to lesbian love and intimacy, all the while challenging notions about the language we use to describe beauty, particularly with regard to women…The track is accompanied by a poignant video that captures candid moments of the couple as they prepared for the birth of their first child. While mainstream media shies away from describing the beauty of queer love in such unabashed terms, Scott-Phillips has gone in for the deep dive. Kudos.”
“Payback Day (I’ll Give No Warning),” a vintage blues-rock banger with honkytonk, roadhouse bar fight vibes, keeps up the momentum as the narrator drinks and plots his revenge. As was the case with “I Keep On Searching,” Comper only had to do a few touch-ups to what was already on tape to ready the track for release. He’s learned the hard way about dismissing unfinished material. “I used to just write tons of songs and I never finished them,” he says about his days with Golden Reef. “When you give it a second look, sometimes it’s a great song.”
The alternative-pop tune explores the modern world we live in filled with fear and pain of living in a country under constant threat of violence, where safety can’t even be guaranteed in schools. Through somber piano keys, lush guitar riffs, and soft drums, this atmospheric track explores the fast-changing world we live in where the strong feed on the meek and gives listeners a brooding sense of urgency in real-time.
Today’s song has a stompin’ bluesy swamp-rock feel, as Prinz Grizzley told Americana UK: “I am pretty sure I wrote this song while I was deep into Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters. It started out as just a delta blues kind of song but after I heard The London Howlin’ Wolf Sessions, I thought why not try and do it like the Rolling Stones did, take a blues song and lean it more into a rock n roll direction. I wanted this to sound like Richards and Jones on guitars with the rhythm section of AC/DC and Prinz Grizzley turning the wolf up in my singing.“