Featuring Attitude – Slow Fiction, Burning Jacobs Ladder, and Dog Race

       This post features three songs in which attitudes and emotions are “worn on the sleeve.”

     “Monday” carries the appeal that drew us to Savages, the Post-Punk band fronted by Jehnny Beth. Savages are no longer together, but we will take “Monday” over the potential of anything new. The lyrics are fast paced and intelligent. The percussion is skillful and the vocals are committed to the message.

 

     Slow Fiction is based in New York, NY. The members are Julia Vassallo (vocals), Joseph Skimmons (guitar), Paul Knepple (guitar), Ryan Duffin (bass), and Akiva Henig (drums). “Monday” is one of five tracks that will be on their EP “Crush,” which will be released on May 24, 2024 via “So Young Records.

      “Monday” by Slow Fiction

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Lyrics of “Monday” by Slow Fiction

I am a subsidiary

of my own sadness

I’m hoping to find

some clarity, I think

about vintage videos

things that used to make me happy

my little socks with cowboy

hats, scary films & things like that

 

I am a subsidiary

of your daddy’s capitalism

your thoughts traded for pennies,

well they used to make me happy

you write your bodega lollipop tragedies

like my broken toe, on your skinned knee

 

It’s a Monday and

I’m going to find

some clarity cos

I can’t stand

this ordinary living

No I can’t stand my

fake inner peace

And I can’t stand

my bad energy

 

So get out

Get out

Get out

baby get out

while you can

make your plans

cause I can’t stand

my fake inner peace

 no I can’t stand

my bad energy

anymore

 

I am telescopic illusion

turning into fractions of myself

the meaning of joy is whenever you’re laughing

I was born in a pool of blood

I am a remnant of my youth

the meaning of time is whatever I make it

My love is an overflowing bag of laundry

My friends are the dust bunnies

in the corners of my bedroom,

sometimes I bite my lip

sometimes to taste the blood

 

Well, it’s a Monday and

I’m going to find

some clarity cos

I can’t stand

this ordinary living

No I can’t stand my fake inner peace

And I can’t stand my bad energy

 

So get out

Get out

Get out

baby get out

while you can

make your plans

cause I can’t stand

my fake inner peace

no I can’t stand

my bad energy

[Repeating]

      Australia-based Burning Jacobs Ladder is the project by multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Jake T. Johnson. While explaining “Deer In The Headlights,” he said:

     "The song is about the pressures of adolescence in the modern world. It’s having the weight on your shoulders to constantly feed a mortgage, rent, bills, cars, repairs... It’s how those pressures start taking priority over your aspirations and passions. I don’t think anyone is fully prepared on how to deal with these responsibilities until they hit you in the face."

     “Deer In The Headlights” by Burning Jacobs Ladder

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 Lyrics of “Deer In The Headlights” by Burning Jacobs Ladder
Breath away you’ve seen the worst
Feel like I wanna run
Just breath it in the loss of worth
I’m a fool like I never was
 
Hold me closer now
I’m a deer in the headlights no way out
Hold me closer now
I’m a deer in the headlight no way out
 
Doubts they speak to shatter dreams
To a life slowly killing you
End the man to end the thoughts
No more ideology
 
Hold me closer now
I’m a deer in the headlights no way out
Hold me closer now
I’m a deer in the headlight no way out
 
Hold my hand
Every dawn I feel we should walk away
walk away I, I know we should run away
Leave the rats to play
 
Hold me closer now
I’m a deer in the headlights no way out
Hold me closer now
I’m a deer in the headlight no way out

     London five-piece Dog Race unleash their latest single 'It's The Squeeze', a cold-sweat invocation of modern anxieties and personal suffocation. The members are Katie Healy (vocals), Jed Finkelstein (drums), James Kelly (guitar), Will McNabb (bass), and Dillon Willis (synth).

     “It's The Squeeze” by Dog Race

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Bandcamp: https://dograceband.bandcamp.com/track/its-the-squeeze

Lyrics of “It's The Squeeze” by Dog Race
How many studies, have aided your dysfunction
I’m in pain over here, and I can’t get a dog’s attention
It's a mutual understanding, that your bluey takes the winning
And I must download a squeezy app, to cure my suffering
 
Oh no, he won’t leave me alone
I owe my life to him, it’s just the situation
If a park run makes me bleed and cry
Then why suggest a marathon
I call it alone time with fiber glass insulation
 
I know that it’s my fault, but then it’s not
But then it is, but then it’s not, but then it is again
 
It’s the squeeze, it’s not the love
It’s the squeeze, it’s not the love
 
A budding rose bush is bursting into season
European nightcrawlers are itching for a feeding
Sawflies haunt the rosa peace, they ponder what is destined
She wonders if she’ll ever breed or shortly follow nature
 
Oh no, he won’t leave me alone
I owe my life to him, but it's just the situation
If I wage a war with life, I’ll never make a parent
I call it alone time with pesticide chrysanthemum
 
I know that it’s my fault, but then it’s not
But then it is, but then it’s not, but then it is
But then it’s not, but then it is again
 
It’s the squeeze, it’s not the love
It’s the squeeze, it’s not the love
It’s the squeeze, it’s not the love
It’s the squeeze, it’s not the love
It's not the love [Repeating]