Dylan Dixon’s video treatment for The Tracks’ song “Your Bike” seems to tap into cultural touchstones like the Circle Jerks’ lounge scene in Repo Man and late 80s Love and Rockets comics with the foggy, dark basement noir menace of Green Room. The music an amalgam of bluesy post-punk with psychedelic saxophone in the latter half of the song adding to a sense of escalating disorder is difficult to compare to much else except for maybe The Dirtbombs and Ty Segall. It has that grit and a touch of the otherworldly. But The Tracks are more dusky and more atmospheric overall on this song and on the rest of its recently released full length Paredón Blanco (out July 29, 2022).In the video we see the band playing in a basement club where some conflict is about to go down and that tense energy permeates the scene and crackles in the vibe of the song as well. For a perhaps more contemporary comparison in terms of mood and aesthetic one might say there’s a touch of the lurid and decayed that one hears in more recent offerings from Iceage. Whatever the ingredients to the band’s music might be “Your Bike” stretches out and sways in its fluid progressions and tinged with a soulful darkness that is missing from too much modern music and a willingness to go to the edge of emotional breakdown and peer over before pulling back to give us some of that otherside spirit. Watch the video on YouTube and follow The Tracks, based out of Los Angeles, at the links below.
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