Noiseheads are back with something way closer to the bone. A new single, "Something About You," scraps off the layers of post-grunge and hard rock down to its damaged, steel-dark undercurrent. There's no gloss here, just guitar, bass, drums, and voice, wielded like weapons across a slow-burning confessional. The song creates a calculated tension from the first few seconds. Sparse verses crackle with unease, pulling you in with that same odd tug the song's title implies. It's a sound at once industrial and intimate, like a conversation you're not sure you should be having at this hour.
The band holds out just long enough, finally crashing down into distorted, grimy power, something in between Queens of the Stone Age and Nine Inch Nails, but with a voice all their own. "Something About You" is its restraint. It has little in the way of lyrics, but what it does have lands with weight. This is the fuzzy emotional space between curiosity and obsession, between comfort and discomfort. The band moved against that clarity with intention, pushing the tension of the moment onto you instead of trying to tell you what to think.
The music video that accompanies it featuring @morningstar_modeling, reinforces the mood visually. It's sexy, yet there's an uncanny stillness to it, a sense that something lovely might turn sinister at any moment. Like the track, it lingers in the grey tones between feelings and perceptions. "Something About You" is a mood, a moment caught in time in electric dread. In this release, Noiseheads demonstrates that they are on their own stormy path, deeper into the shadows. It's a daring, slow burn, and it lingers.
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