Did I Stutter

Melkbelly “Bathroom at the Beach”

A lot of the best and most aggressive punk is, on a melodic level, total candy. “Bathroom at the Beach” is a great example – the core of it is catchy and bouncy enough to be a jingle, and the main vocal melody is sung with a singsong lilt that’s close to what you’d get in children’s music. But the sound of it is so gloriously abrasive, and the abrupt burst into noise on the chorus is one of the most thrilling bits of any record I’ve heard recently. It’s so easy to imagine a room full of people losing their shit at that exact moment; it’s like this band is going out of their way to make the most mosh-inducing song possible. I thank them for that.

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