This Week’s ‘Riffs & Roads’ Serves up Alt Rock Novelties

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Saint Friday – Reason 

Saint Friday is an indie rock duo with a sound that you cannot get enough of. Their sense of modernity and youth is so fresh and crisp. Like a winter morning breeze. And it’s not something that you’ll come by often. So you dwell in it and grow into its sentiments. That’s what their latest release, ‘Reason’ does to you. The song is an expanse that is filled with vivid and varied thematic. It doesn’t have any of those tired interpretations or projections. Instead it is vast. Moments of softness are dispersed spectacularly with riff texture, shoegaze fringes, and a dream pop core. As you listen to this pop rock song, made with fuzzy and dazing riffs, streams of color and vocals that sound like an absorbing sun beam, you’ll know you’ve found your new favorite band. Listen Now! 

Isaac Neilson – Spiked (Mind Eraser) 

Isaac Neilson explores the dark hallways of rock with absorbing themes, cerebral narratives, and an alt rock drive. His latest release is ‘Spiked (Mind Eraser)’, a track that features a reflective space. The initial parts of the song springs with contemplative vocals in a musically suspended backdrop. Come chorus, the song explodes into a punk space. With a tempo spike, theatrical instrumentals, and a driving punk core, the song comes apart and comes together. With these drastic frames nicely juxtaposed, the artist evokes effect with energy. The lull when you’re just floating with thoughts followed by  that impulse that destroys everything. That’s the spike that the artist explores and it’s such a great place to be. 

You All Will See – You All Will See 

You All Will See’s self-titled single is a riff masterpiece. It is built, fed, grown, and performed with such potent and cutting riffs. It slices through you with its intensity, passion, and so much power. The basslines glow through it, making the soundscape a grandeur but in the most raw and real way. Made of brimming textures, it is smoothly speckled with folk moments and softer flows. Two planes that bring the theme to life, the song to a stylistic fruition that you were not expecting. This guitar showcase, edgy, grungey and heated with raw rock blizzards is the perfect way for us to end this week’s ’Riffs & Rock’ list. It’s like having a sandstorm in your car, a landscape that makes your drive surreal and interesting. 

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