The beginning of “Mars” by The Down & Outs is a torturous sound like someone is playing some field recording of a feedbacking guitar in a subway and manipulating that signal so that you’re not even sure what you’re hearing. But it’s an apt introduction to the song ahead that itself sounds like glam rock influenced post-punk song being performed in the tight confines of a utility closet because it’s the only space available on the moon base from which a near future staging area for flights to the planet Mars are located. Sure the fidelity is hard to place because clearly the production has a keen ear for sonic detail. But the passionate performance and vocals that are reminiscent of what might have happened if Chrome was way more into Bowie and collaborated with The Faint to deliver what sounds like the story of a twisted romance. And in the end the vocals repeat the chorus of “We can go Mars sometime!” to the point of being nearly unhinged giving the whole song a genuinely edgy tone. Listen to “Mars” on Spotify.
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