I can say with absolute certainty that this is the first song about creepy-older-woman-lust that Ear Coffee has ever covered. I don't know if it will be the last - who knows what the future holds?
NATL PARK SRVC are back for their second EP of the year, and man, they're really going for it. Lead single "All the Moves" (mixed/mastered by Abe Anderson) sounds like its falling apart. The guitars don't quite match up, vocals scratch just out of tune. What's even more surprising than the song's topic is how it works together. It's a statement against self-seriousness, which has been the band's MO thus far. There's always a gleam in frontman Dylan Woytcke's eyes as he sings his strange songs of lonely, desperate middle-aged women.
About two-thirds of the way in, the gleeful dissonance vanishes and the band quiets down. In both video and song, the band lets themselves go as they dive into a final eternal refrain. They're on some post-rock wavelength with these kinds of crescendos and diminuendos.
"All the Moves" toes the line, finding the sweet spot between "so lo-fi it's bad" and "so lo-fi it's good." The band's droll sense of musical humor is still very much intact.
The video takes any subtlety and just curb stomps it. The lyrics are taken very literally, but for some reason the older woman is played by Woytcke in a wig and makeup. It's exactly the kind of video to take place in a gas station supermarket. It was directed by Woytcke's brother, Alex.
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