TV FACE Punctures the Pomposity of Boastful Fools on “Yarns”

We all know at least one person who talks big and has a story about everything that’s grander than anything you can speak to with any integrity. The president of the United States of America is one of these people for whom everything is the non-plus ultra of whatever subject is at hand. But in the end these stories don’t stand up to scrutiny and when they unravel the whole edifice of making the teller out to be some kind of hero or person of great accomplishment crumbles. TV FACE’s song “Yarns” spins such a tale in words and the language of wiry, layered discordant riffs and amplified energy. In moments it’s reminiscent of one of Lee Ranaldo’s more punk songs for Sonic Youth with its wide-ranging and sprawling dynamic that somehow welds to that stretched out composition an enthusiastic intensity. With the line “Just like the yarns you’ve come undone, you look washed out” the band encapsulates the end result of making oneself and one’s life more interesting than is the truth. Why not tell stories of your life that you can live up to instead of getting lost in a web of what you think to be beautiful truths when someone somewhere is going to know you’re exaggerating if not outright lying? Listen to “Yarns” on Soundcloud, follow UK-based post-punk band TV FACE at the links below and give a listen to the group’s new EP Like Dominoes which released April 24, 2020 on Bandcamp.