THE WORLD WE LIVE IN
Some records are intentionally angry, fuelled deliberately by political ire from the outset. Others… well, they just come out that way. Given the tensions of recent times, such inadvertent anger in new rock releases is especially understandable.
“It is a very strange, confusing time,” Don Broco vocalist Rob Damiani says of the world that fed into Amazing Things, the band’s heavy, fearlessly eclectic fourth album. “It led me to the most aggressive vocal styles we’ve done on a record. It just felt right with the music. When you’re hearing a riff, you’re: ‘I just want to shout over this. Shout something angry.’”
It’s difficult), in a uniform creating David Beckham clones in a lab (bizarro social media commentary ), and full astronaut gear (stirring, balladic ode to human fragility ).
