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The Bad Randys - Serotonin
The Bad Randys - Serotonin
If you’ve ever thought that those early King Gizz records would’ve sounded better if they’d been fronted by Anton Newcombe singing through Kevin Shields' pedalboard, The Bad Randys might just be for you.
Today we're delighted to premiere The Bad Randys’ first offering ‘Serotonin’, an incendiary burst of layered guitars and reverb-soaked vocals that pays homage both to their psych rock contemporaries Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees as well as shoegaze acts of decades past like My Bloody Valentine and The Brian Jonestown Massacre.
Today we're delighted to premiere The Bad Randys’ first offering ‘Serotonin’, an incendiary burst of layered guitars and reverb-soaked vocals that pays homage both to their psych rock contemporaries Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees as well as shoegaze acts of decades past like My Bloody Valentine and The Brian Jonestown Massacre.
For those who haven’t been paying attention, The Bad Randys have been a regular fixture of the Melbourne psych scene since their inception in 2019, gigging regularly at the likes of Cactus Room, The Grace Darling and The Last Chance. After a solid couple of years honing their craft, they’ve finally graced us with a studio single - and what a debut it is.
No time is wasted in establishing The Bad Randys’ rock and roll credentials: meaty chords chug over badass squalling feedback, building into the track’s instantly captivating lead hook. Save for the breathy, washed-out verses, from here the onslaught is relentless, with insistent drums underpinning wall-of-sound guitar mayhem which culminates in a minute and a half of duelling fuzzed-out psychedelic lead guitar solos.
On the track’s inception, The Bad Randys said: “we’d just started playing together as a band again post the big lockdown last year, chasing a fresh change in sound after primarily playing as a post-punk group… lyrically it’s simply about missing the motivation and the drive to do anything, though the vague lyrics allow the listener to attribute their own meaning to the song. After locking the elements down, it finally came together and it’s one of our favourites to play live.”
Fingers crossed they’ll get to do a bit of that sooner rather than later - keep an eye on their socials for gig announcements, and in the meantime think about grabbing one of their shirts on Bandcamp before they sell out.
No time is wasted in establishing The Bad Randys’ rock and roll credentials: meaty chords chug over badass squalling feedback, building into the track’s instantly captivating lead hook. Save for the breathy, washed-out verses, from here the onslaught is relentless, with insistent drums underpinning wall-of-sound guitar mayhem which culminates in a minute and a half of duelling fuzzed-out psychedelic lead guitar solos.
On the track’s inception, The Bad Randys said: “we’d just started playing together as a band again post the big lockdown last year, chasing a fresh change in sound after primarily playing as a post-punk group… lyrically it’s simply about missing the motivation and the drive to do anything, though the vague lyrics allow the listener to attribute their own meaning to the song. After locking the elements down, it finally came together and it’s one of our favourites to play live.”
Fingers crossed they’ll get to do a bit of that sooner rather than later - keep an eye on their socials for gig announcements, and in the meantime think about grabbing one of their shirts on Bandcamp before they sell out.
'Serotonin' is out in all the usual places this Friday.
