Rat Champion’s use of small details in the guitar riffs like the bends and single note accents really lends the song “Face” from its new EP Flux (released March 18, 2023) a subtle and powerful poignancy in addition to the song’s already enveloping emotional vibrancy. The clipped, doom-like guitar riff paired with truly captivating vocal harmonies and burnished and flowing swells of guitar and percussion brings to the song a touch of grit to help frame a song that is so deeply bittersweet in its evocation of heartbreak and what sounds like painful and haunting memories of familial abuse. The fact that the song is so gorgeous in its atmospherics and its songwriting so expansive in tone makes its subject matter hit a little harder and makes the potential catharsis more thorough. Listen to “Face” on YouTube and follow Rat Champion from Boise, Idaho at the links below.
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