Song Review: The Pack A.D. "The Water"
The best kind of new-song earworms are ones which grab you on the first listen and stick with you so much that the song demands repeat listens. This is definitely what happened this week when a copy of The Pack A.D.'s new album, Do Not Engage made its way in front of me, and track 6, "The Water", flooded my ears.
Turn your speakers up, press play, close your eyes, and let this one put you in a trance.
Vancouver B.C.'s The Pack A.D. are a duo. That throbbing, darkly hypnotic riffage is being pummeled out by drummer Maya Miller (left) and guitarist/singer Becky Black (right). The production on this track is utterly spot on, and the pair play off each other expertly, which one would expect as this song comes from their fifth album in eight years.
Black's guitar tone and the way it plays off Miller's drums in lock step is what gives this track its trance-like quality. This is the first time I've not played air-guitar along to a song, instead nodding my head in time with the chords. Comparison's to New York's seminal, protopunk duo, Suicide (Alan Vega and Martin Rev), are impossible to ignore, but The Pack A.D. bring much more melody to their party, without sacrificing any of the darkness that makes this song pull you under the water.
Photo credit: Rebecca Blissett via ThePackAD.com
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