“HOCKEY PUCK” by Manchester-based artist Sweets has a sonic forcefulness and urgency out of the gates that sounds like a thrilling amalgamation of the industrial end of JPEGMAFIA and moody post-punk. There is a scrappy quality to the vocals mixed with a reflective melancholia channeled into catharsis. Sweets looks back on memories that have stayed with him of peak moments and resonant details from his life that have made helped shape who he is. Yet later in the song he considers how memories of your past can trap you into a way of being and thinking that he wants to break out of the song’s sheer momentum sounds like the amplified will to burst out of limits and modes of thinking and being that one has outgrown. The song takes some moments in dreamlike spaciousness before getting back into the direct drive of the song to its conclusion. The song is a hybrid of styles that feels like something new that fans of the aforementioned and the attitude and sonic adventurousness of Sleaford Mods will appreciate. Listen to “HOCKEY PUCK” on Spotify and follow Sweets at the links below.
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