Once a simple collection of rough, introspective demos on Bandcamp by Bran Palesano, the sound of the new American slowcore group some fear was fleshed out in recent months with the introduction of new players. Now the band is thriving as a four-piece with the addition of bandmates Ray Morgan, James Tunell, and Lennon Bramlett. With hazy instrumentals now serving as the backdrop for the rich foundation set by Bran, of personal lyricism and melancholic guitars, some fear is producing truly standout textured slowcore sounds. At this point, success feels inevitable.
The band’s latest track “The Road” came out today, a delightfully bleak dirge for slacker-rock enthusiasts. It wrestles with the harsh reality of noticing all the red flags in a person, but ignoring them anyway until they wrong you. “I wanted “The Road” to be the heaviest song on the album based on the subject matter,” writer Bran said. “It’s about someone in my past doing something so irredeemable, even though the patterns were there and I should’ve seen it coming, and feeling betrayed by them.”
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Layered guitars blister and bleed across the textured landscape, with Bran’s crackling vocals peeling through the sound in a hazy shroud of fuzzy frequencies. Like the singles released by some fear before, the unexpected warm feelings evoked by the distorted guitars here make an otherwise melancholic song feel unexpectedly comforting. Bran’s honesty in the track is perhaps what’s most soothing, as it helps remind us that we all mess up sometimes, even if that mistake is as innocent as trying to give an imperfect human the benefit of the doubt.
This is the third single off of some fear’s upcoming debut album out with Rite Field Records, and also comes just ahead of their tour across the American South. For a taste of what’s to come from this burgeoning force in the slowcore scene, listen to “The Road” below.
