Mit „Carnage Bargain“ liefert das Quartett aus Kalifornien eine raue Mischung aus Garage Rock, New Wave, klassischen Horrorfilm-Soundtrack und eine Vielzahl anderer Einflüsse von Links-der-Mitte.
Die Lead-Single „Girlfriend Degree“ ist bereits online - ein Mid-Tempo-Klopfer aus Mitklatsch-Rhythmen, Fuzz-Gitarren und Schlacht-Gesängen, der die Mission der Band, immer den Status Quo abzulehnen, deutlich macht. Das Video wurde von Ambar Navarro (Cuco, Soccer Mommy, Stef Chura) gedreht.
Die Band kommentiert den Track wie folgt: „„Girlfriend Degree“ is a call to arms, a reminder to be a supremely self-loving woman, to just do you. There’s all this pressure about being “the ideal
woman,” and it’s easy to get caught up in that—to spend your time trying to be all these things that others think you should be. Getting a “girlfriend degree” is about settling, selling oneself
short and not believing in yourself—valuing your partner’s beliefs or opinions over your own. It’s cool to be a girlfriend or wife or whatever, but there’s so much more to being a woman than
that. This desire to be above that is also somewhat a telling of how our band came to be. We were all going to a bunch of shows and obviously having a great time and it took us a bit for us to
realize that we could also make and perform our own music….and that nothing was preventing us from doing that besides ourselves. We all have power and we should use that power to exercise our own
agency.”
“We’re living in the dystopian future. Our lives are completely tracked and programmed, our extension of ourselves is a handheld computer with a microphone and camera that stays on while were
unaware, and, on top of everything, the extreme right is gaining continuous world power,”THE PARANOYDS explains of its name. “What isn’t there to be paranoyd about?”
“We’re living in the dystopian future. Our lives are completely tracked and programmed, our extension of ourselves is a handheld computer with a microphone and camera that stays on while were unaware, and, on top of everything, the extreme right is gaining continuous world power,”THE PARANOYDS explains of its name. “What isn’t there to be paranoyd about?”
„Carnage Bargain“ captures this chemistry perfectly—channeling the genre-mashing weirdness of guitar-and-keyboard provocateurs like The Intelligence on tracks like “Laundry,” the fever-dream kitsch of early B-52s on“Ratboy,” krautrock’s motorik groove on “Hungry Sam,” and the beguiling pop of Blondie on the sweet-and-salty highlight “Courtney.” The band may indeed be paranoid, but they offer a solution to our modern ills through the simple act of being an inspiring, independent, and unflappable musical force.
