Review/ Rock : Rubbish Party’s ‘Let Me Take You/ First World Villain’
Rubbish Party is a rock band who have the spirit of wanderer. Their compositions are marked with wayward drifts that go into forgotten spaces and invisible feelings. You never know where they’re gonna take you, but you know it’s gonna make you feel profound, new and fresh again. It’s as wild and dreamy as a sky full of stars. Expansive and open while also being highly nuanced and thematically specific. Their latest release is a double single, ‘Let Me Take You/ First World Villain’. Think an outlier version of The Smiths. Melodic rock meets new age production and fluid soundscape dynamics.
‘Let Me Take You’ asks for a magical surrender, one that is not about control but about desire, love, and a melancholic romance that melts into you. The soundscape is a dazed drift, dispersing with bokeh textured melodies, soft chromatism, and abstract vocal tangents. All of it spreads into an endless horizon. It’s moody, sparked with lust, heartache and an irrevocable desire. It’s the kind of feeling that you cannot reverse or resist. And going with the flow, you get it all. The sharp, the dull, the dazed, the rounded and the sweetness.
‘First World Villain’ has a more dynamic feel. With an active beat plane, it keeps rolling. It’s amazing how consistent that beatline is, despite the repetition and the tempo. As the listener, it’s not only catchy, but you come to rely on it as you’re exploring the vocal realities and emotion. Strangely, the beat motif and pattern is a contrasting anchor. It also celebrates the riff grooves and the revolving basslines, all of it coming alive in a luminous way. And the vocals have a gradient within the monotone, as it scales and sweeps through complex sensibilities. It's soft and intimate, gaining a punk kick in the chorus, building into a multi-faceted indie piece.
Both tracks have charisma and characteristics of their own. Even as they branch from a similar stylistic pot, the band forges vividly varied and nuanced paths for them. It’s an incredible study on how many dimensions are contained within the indie. Especially when you add a modern interpretation to it. Listen Now!
The double single is available for streaming on popular sites like Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and Amazon Music!
You can listen to ‘Let Me Take You/ First World Villain’ by Rubbish Party here -
