“Charged by equal parts manic fervour and anxious frenzy, playing like the fevered delirium of a country’s dying mind.” That was our verdict on ‘Degree Decree’, the first single from Hit Bargain‘s A DOG A DEER A SEAL, an album coming soon on Get Better Records. Consisting of former/current members of the likes of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Beach Fossils and Cold Beat and led by Nora Singh, the LA-based band “aims to stare the worst excesses of our society square in the eye,” as we continued, with the first single “portray[ing] this mood in all of its maniacal panic, where the technological hubris of consumerism encroaches on our world as a synthetic blight.”
With the album’s release fast approaching, Hit Bargain have returned with new single and album opener, ‘Immaculate Vaxxer’. Another frenetic and foreboding track which barrels headlong towards the paranoid core of contemporary society. “A skittish, escitalopram-fueled snapshot of a country on the verge of a nervous breakdown,” is how the label describes the record, and the single welcomes the listener into this mindset. Where the perpetual grind of physical suffering meets a kind of fervid spirituality. As though faced with such a surplus of feeling and pain, the mind has no choice but to rail against the confines of the body in search of a way out.
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The song also comes complete with a video designed and animated by Chris Mulligan:
A DOG A DEER A SEAL is out on the 10th November via Get Better Records and you can pre-order it from the Hit Bargain Bandcamp page.
Photo by Matt Allen