Goddamn Wolves – Barricades Are Overrun (2024)
While Goddamn Wolves are noted as an indie-rock trio, their sound saunters across various flavours of rock offering a more eclectic tone. From classic rock to indie-rock, hits of grunge, shimmers of Britpop and a flush of alternative rock, Goddamn Wolves transcend decades, time, space and style proving good music doesn’t need definition. Goddamn Wolves reached our ears earlier this year with their well-received single ‘Seven Days A Week’ and, to be honest, we were hooked from the first chord. Breathing life into the sounds of Dodgy and Ash, ‘Seven Days A Week’ caught our attention; today, we take a gander (or rather listen to) their latest single ‘Barricades Are Overrun’.
Following the critically acclaimed tracks ‘Seven Days A Week’ and ‘Nowhere’, the US-based group drag listeners back to the 90s with a grunge meets indie-rock sound. A concoction of Chris Weilding’s guitar, Laura McCullough’s bass and Drew Foglia’s drums, ‘Barricades Are Overrun’ offers a bold, soaring, scorching rush of music.
While the song has an underlying harmony within its arrangement each instrument has individuality from the crashing drums to bold guitars. Moreover, there is a soothing sincerity within the melody, its sense of distortion can be uncomfortable. The composition has you tossed from pillar to post in an abstract soundscape while holding you close in a sonic embrace.
Oscillating from dark to light, joy to despair, vulnerability to confidence, ‘Barricades Are Overrun’ is profound and intricate but with a laidback easiness. An aspect that adds further depth to ‘Barricades Are Overrun’ is the male/female vocal interplay like a conversation between two friends. Sounds that should collide are bound by the moving vocals in an unhinged but calming cohesion.
Find out more about Goddamn Wolves on their official website, Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram and Spotify.
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