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Drab City - Good Songs For Bad People [New Vinyl LP]

Artist: Drab City

Title: Good Songs For Bad People

Format: Vinyl LP

Genre: Rock

UPC: 5400863027865

Release Date: 2020

Record Label: Bella Union

Album Tracks

1. Entering Drab City
2. Working for the Men
3. Hand on My Pocket
4. Another Time
5. Devil Doll
6. Troubled Girl
7. Just Me & You
8. Problem
9. Live Free & Die When It's Cool
10. Standing Where You Left Me

A heady air of dislocation envelops Drab City's debut album, where songs of innocence and experience merge with dub, hip-hop, dream-pop and jazzy soundtrack vibes to intoxicating effect. Drab City are fixated on social alienation, violent revenge, and (perhaps) romantic love as salvation; topics not new in music, but listening to Drab City in 2020, one is struck by how uncommon they've become. Lyrically, these songs often project punkish angst and resentment. Dreamy and ethereal, a foundation of flute, vibraphone, and jazzy guitar chord melody can switch to drum machines or funk-inflected girl-group pop at a moment's notice. It's a flurry of 20th century references, combining and recombining at such a schizophrenic pace, the overall effect is something that could only be conjured in our frenzied present. At once catchy and unfamiliar, the melodic, welcoming soundscapes are a Trojan horse for the band's antisocial outlook.