Rabbit Rabbit sees Speedy Ortiz writing some of the biggest and most gripping music of their career; their five years away have only made them better.
with the phrase going since February of 2018, and to click through each month’s recitation feels like falling down a rabbit hole itself.is also now the title of Speedy Ortiz’s fourth album, though it was never intended to be. According toThe idea stuck in Dupuis’ mind and, eventually, became a reality.. Speedy Ortiz has re-emerged with some fundamental changes.
to push for increased benefits for those impacted by the abrupt end of live music. Music remains a portion of the entertainment industry that has struggled to act with the same level of united effort, with musicians and their hanger ons, sometimes, prone to a self-serving careerism. Many of the singles fromtangle with these music industry labor issues.
It’s a question one could pose to the person sitting in a dive bar listening to “sob songs your buddy wrote” in “You S02.” That song, bright, jagged and anthemic, is sonically invigorating—despite its wry, embittered worldview. Dupuis sings “Falling in love with LA / Where the cars cut you off from the right lane” with a delicious bit of acid in her voice. It’s a balm on the soul if you feel similarly cynically about the City of Angels.
“Brace Thee” and “Ghostwriter” close out the album as polar opposites that push against each other. The former is a gloomy, scorned, almost-shoegaze song that’s reminiscent ofcloser “MKVI” in the way it stretches the usually Speedy Ortiz formula out into something more fluid. It’s a mode the band plays in rarely these days, but the result is always something that snaps your attention back into focus. The lyrics of “Brace Thee” are delivered slowly, each word clinging to the one before it.
“Ghostwriter” sees this drawn-out wonder and responds to it with uncharacteristic pep. As though suddenly a power pop band, this riff-heavy, hopeful song ends the record on a high note on multiple levels. By no means has Speedy Ortiz ever been a hopeless band, butsignifies the growth they’ve undergone—that the record they’ve made after spending years chipping away at the idea that things can improve.
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