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The Cool Greenhouse “Hard Rock Potato”

“Hard Rock Potato” is a lyrical snapshot of an odd pandemic moment – Redditors playing the stock market game as a goof, trading apps making it all feel like a video game. Tom Greenhouse speak-sings it all with an arch deadpan – you’d never mistake him for being serious, but he’s committed to the bit enough for the sarcasm to hit just right. As with the band’s previous song “Alexa,” Greenhouse is in interesting thematic territory by fixating on how new tech trends become most absurd the moment they become widespread enough to become fairly mundane. Greenhouse pokes at the absurdity and has a laugh, all the while his band lock into a very mid-80s The Fall kind of groove.

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