“White Noise (Don’t Be a Winner)” Finds Indigo Bunting Time Travelling Down the Pop Vortex and the Post-Punk Collage Wall of Sound

IndigoBunting2_crop — Indigo Bunting, photo courtesy the artists

Austin’s Indigo Bunting is thankfully not taking cues from modern trends in pop music and its new single “White Noise (Don’t Be a Winner)” taps liberally across decades for musical ideas to inspire something decidedly different. The choruses have a classic melodic quality and large sonics akin to the songs produced by Phil Spector at Gold Star Studios in the 1960s. But the palette of sound is an enchantingly disorienting mash-up of Siouxsie-esque post-punk, warping psychedelic reminiscent of the less noisy end of Indian Jewelry and a drums that sound like they were recorded while the drummer was sitting inside an echo chamber with curiously tight reverb so that beats cascade off each other in a manner that really compliments the subculture jamming composition generally. Nevertheless, this is an accessible song that is not a send-up of possible influences so much as some cool nods amid the band’s inspired, dancing, gyering collage of sound. Listen to the song on Soundcloud and follow Indigo Bunting at the links provided.