Mediocre, the Los Angeles-essentially essentially based mostly rock duo of guitarist/vocalist Piper Torrison (she/they) and bassist/vocalist Keely Martin (she/her), supply hot indie rock meditations with their hotly anticipated debut album Improve Eater, due out September 27 on Dangerbird Recordsdata. The band launched the file and lead single “Enjoyable Time Fix (We Accelerate Accelerate)” to acclaim spanning Stereogum, Ones To Watch, Northern Transmissions, Punknews.org, GLAAD and more. This day they portion “Litterbug!” harnessing their irresistible indie-rock guitar wails and bouncing percussion for an ‘00’s-indebted anthem sure to enamour followers of Sunny Day Trusty Property, Mineral or Texas Is The Reason. “Litterbug!” is a tune that wrestles with the feeling of being entirely scattered.
The band shares, “It’s about an awareness of littering your environment with your possess litter and your possess racing thoughts with unending chatter, eternally disorganized and entrapped by chaos. Realizing that these points are self constructed is what makes the damage sting the most, and coming to terms with your possess trash, your possess litter, is systems to in fact acquire the center to beginning selecting it up.”
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Attempting to acquire comfort in an an increasing selection of unhappy world, the irresistibly catchy assortment commands listeners to the dancefloor as they infuse suggestions of large existentialism, dystopia and restlessness into commentary on how that angst spills over into day after day life. After writing songs at some level of their overlapping one-one year stint in Boston—impressed by the cerebral pop arrangements of Tegan and Sara’s The Con, the shipshape, poignant vocals of Jenny Lewis, and the craving, hopeful indie rock of Damaged Social Scene—Mediocre joined drummer Jake Pavlica and producer Danny Nogueiras (No Rep) in his Glassell Park studio with the honest of mischievous experimentation and with more self assurance than ever. They emerged with a searingly thick energy pop file that darts seamlessly between ‘00s dance-punk grooves, brazen pop-ballads and blistering guitar lines.
The album title Improve Eater, will even be understood from plenty of lenses, such as the execrable ways we eat away at ourselves, and by extension, the varied for sure growth when one finds the energy to gash spoiled habits that feast on our wisely-being. Forming Mediocre as high college sophomores most though-provoking chums Piper Torrison and Keely Martin have confronted sizable life adjustments together. With timeless pop hooks, a mutual like and appreciate for every a quantity of and the realm they’ve constructed, Improve Eater affords solace and solid ground to end planted as the realm finds unusual rugs to pull out from underneath you.
