Recriminations and spite run through Springworks’ lates single “We Are Not Amused.” The band regularly finds old industrial film footage, commercials and public domain reels in crafting the music videos to accompany its songs and for this it looks like a family conflict and one more in the workplace while women dance for some television show from the 60s that would play popular music like Hullaballoo or Shindig! The song is a lo-fi power pop number akin to a bubblegum pop band of that late 60s era but the lyrics relate what sounds like a serious conflict of some sort that was challenging to resolve in which both parties probably won’t see eye to eye and get some mutually agreeable resolution. And that happens in life and you have to find some way to process those feelings. The line “The steam-uh/Evaporating into/Pistons/To make it up that hill/And this song/Replacing urge to kill” outlines a path to transmuting rage into something productive which, unfortunately, doesn’t happen enough in the world. But in the distorted guitar crunch and buoyant melodies of this song there’s something that honors the anger while putting that energy to use and make something out of it you’d rather have in the world and maybe someone will hear it and pull back from the precipice just a little. Watch the video for “We Are Not Amused” on YouTube and follow Springworks at the links provided.
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