Mattie Safer is perhaps best known up to this point as the bass player for The Rapture during its early heyday writing songs for and playing on its early albums including the 2003 classic Echoes. Since departing the band he’s played with Poolside and now his self-named band Safer. The single “All My Life” is almost an homage to the stripped down post-punk and art punk of New York with some guitar licks resonating with those of Television and the wiry yet tuneful quality that was one of that band’s signature sounds. “All My Life” is accented and driven partly by a strong, melodic bass line as would any song by one of the classic post-punk bands of yore. In the breakdown second around halfway through with Casey Butler on sax the song takes on the lush and majestic quality one might associate with some art glam band like Roxy Music. Mixing soulfulness and starkness, grit and sophistication, this debut single from Safer is promising indeed. You can catch Safer live at Alphaville in Brooklyn on Friday, July 12, 2019 with No Swoon, Campo Formio and Monograms. For now listen below and follow Safer at his website.
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