Day Friend Drop Parasitic Grifter Scum
Since being turned onto Austin’s Day Friend, we’ve pretty much been the band’s hype machine, and here we are with one final track from the group before they drop their album…which is oddly enough titled Parasitic Grifter Scum. Songwriter Blake said he was jamming to a lot of krautrock, with the metronomic style of the genre dominating the way the track presents itself, driving and crunching while the lyrics have this steadied cool that crosses through the madness. Its clear at this point that the group have locked into their own sound, fusing various brands of rock n’ roll into, ultimately leaving all of their tunes feeling slightly different and loosely linked…the tunes never feel stale when rocked one after the other. Their album will be out this Fall, but if you’re in Austin tonight you can catch them tonight at Knomad!
While we covered a lot of territory, I’ll admit that there’s definitely a shadow hanging over last week’s jams, namely the much-hyped return of Allo’ Darlin. I also had to go back and make sure I added in that Day Friend to the list, as that’s one of my favorite ATX acts. Plus, the return of ATH faves the High Water Marks makes another weekly highlight, and now that I’m thinking about it…there’s just a ton of rad stuff here. We got other Austin stuff represented with a new single from Thor & Friends, not to mention this really great introduction to the Pennys (which has some ATX connections). Also, some photos of Hey Nothing ran with a show review, so we threw up their latest single too! Stream it all below!