Two-Man Giant Squid’s song “3 Hits” has such a driving bass line, enveloping synth melodies and wonderfully arch vocals in the vein on The Fall or early IDLES it might be easy to miss how it’s such an incisive commentary on what it’s like being in a band in these diminished and conflicted times. In the video component for the song there is an ask of the band to open for Wheatus on a boat. Good for Wheatus for being able to keep being a band when its most well-known and only moderately noteworthy material was from a quarter of a century ago. Two-Man Giant Squid takes that as a symbol for the kinds of experiences and dystopian nature of operating in the world of music today. Regardless of one’s opinion of Wheatus the place of music in modern culture has been largely relegated to a disposable experience and increasingly difficult to make it your life unless you’re rich or have a trust fund or got lucky in a way pretty much no one does. It doesn’t matter how good your band might be (something humorously alluded to in the song) if you don’t find a way to go viral you will probably not be championed by anyone or any entity that can help boost you to people beyond your friend circle. The days of old school music journalism is 20 years dead and the music blogs of the late 2000s and 2010s are a husk with some dinosaur holdouts and their readers that care at least a little bit to find new music. These are dystopian times but the younger generation seems to be graving the analog, human experience and that is hopefully where a band with the songwriting moxy and charisma that Two-Man Giant Squid display on this humorous yet undeniably ear worm song “3 Hits” will find an audience. And hey, maybe they’ll get to open for Electric Six on their next tour. Listen to “3 Hits” on YouTube and follow Two-Man Giant Squid at the links provided.
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