Music Review //
The Interests
"Capitulation" / Attention"
https://open.spotify.com/track/52B44izxBQjSWFnaXhm5mQ?si=e2963ebd05564c06 //
One of the first things I found when beginning the review for The Interests is that based upon their name and even the song titles they are not the easiest music to track down on the world wide web. Google, for example, would rather have me find a band called the "Special Interests", which is not the same, and typically it would bug me that an artist is hard to find but I kind of dig it here because it's one of those situations where I feel like you have to look a little bit deeper but it's worth it. Also, as it turns it, a simple search through Spotify would have done the trick, as I started my search on Bandcamp and then found a SoundCloud link.
The first single by The Interests is called "Attention" and it is actually quite a fun level of borderline new wave rock music. The chorus speeds up like punk but it's just so mellow and even paced during the verses. It reminds me a bit of the song "Don't Change" by INXS and it also could very easily be the type of song which could have appeared on "The Basketball Diaries" soundtrack. The lyrics are about, among other topics, wanting someone's attention and I feel like that is rather straight forward and specific. It is also the type of situation I think we can all agree that we have been in before.
Following "Attention", The Interests have just released the single "Capitulation", which in and of itself is an interesting word. You can look up the definition but it's basically an agreement in some ways. Lines like "I like to leave your text on read" as well as "You no longer make me happy but you also don't make me sad" set the tone for the faster rocking song, somewhat like "About A Girl" era Nirvana or the MPLS scene that was headed by artists such as The Replacements. As The Interests will be the first to tell you in this song as well, unlike "Attention", this one is a bit more complicated.
If you've ever started driving before sunset but managed to drive through the sunset there exists this time period where you are unaware of whether or not your car should have its headlights on. As you're driving, it just gets casually darker so you're not really as aware of it as you might be if you were to stop driving and get back into your car. This is where The Interests live musically: somewhere between those new wave bands taking us from the late 1980's into the 1990's, punk and grunge in the 1990's and right into the future with this new sound they've created.
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