Gone Stereo – Meet Me At Garvies (2024)
Dragging us back to the days of New Found Glory, All Time Low, Fall Out Boy, and the Warped Tour experience, Gone Stereo is the quintessential vintage pop-punk band flooded with Good Charlotte meets Billy Talent glory. A fan of the time with Marianas Trench blasting from my speakers, I hold the 2000s pop-rock/pop-punk scene in high esteem, and US-based Gone Stereo breathes life into those nostalgic whispers.
This is my introduction to the foursome, but they have already started turning heads with critical acclaim on international blogs, radio stations and playlists. Following the well-received single ‘What Happened?’, Gone Stereo stomps into 2024 with their new track ‘Meet Me At Garvies’ – Garvies being a town in Long Island. Yet, while the song prompts the insanity of a fist-pumping festival audience, it is more profound than the crash of pop-punk music. Lyrically, ‘Meet Me At Garvies’ has a weighty charm as frontman Matty Lupinacci’s narrative resonates with audiences. He explains:
“My inspiration behind the lyrics for ‘Meet Me At Garvies’ are my spontaneous and continuous thoughts about what, how and who. Throughout most of my life, it always felt like as soon as it comes it was already gone. So, I took those feelings and that sentence and there you have it.”
Infectious, hard-hitting and filled with toe-tapping punk sentimentalities, ‘Meet Me At Garvies’ is an immersive sonic experience draping you in a kaleidoscopic veil of sound. Combining the natural talent of Chris Lynam (guitar), Josh Freeman (guitar), Mike Drinkwalter (bass), Dan DiGiuseppe (drums) and Matty Lupinacci (vocals), the track hits you in the gut with soaring, crashing, pounding music; but in the best way possible. Vulnerable with confidence, sophisticated with raw innocence, gritty with elegant soothing, ‘Meet Me At Garvies’ delves into the human spirit with anthemic ease.
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