"Strobes" (A Very Special Episode song) – Queen City Sounds and Art

A Very Special Episode, photo courtesy the artists

“Strobes” finds A Very Special Episode pulsing with a driven energy and an aggressive and noisy sound that sounds like the band is trying to push everything into the red and holding on for dear life. It’s a song that has moments of disorienting echoes and scorching melodies and a sense that it could all combust at any moment and with the chorus of “Freak me out” it’s almost a challenge to see if one can have that kind of experience in a way that flirts with the dangerous but not necessarily the negatively destructive. It’s a fine line and the song with its washes of sonic fire and spirited vocals embodies a yearning to have an experience that blows open previously known boundaries and habits that have hemmed one in without knowing it. Watch the psychedelic video for “Strobes” (yes, there are strobes so those sensitive to that effect be advised) on YouTube and follow A Very Special Episode at the links below. Fans of A Place to Bury Strangers and Ganser will appreciate this band’s particular flavor of post-punk.