Every now and again, you come across a song that just seems too grand to fall on deaf ears. From the very first riff or the very first time you hear the way the music is arranged, you just know how the song will be received on much larger stages. To put it perhaps prematurely, you are under the impression that such a song is the right track towards that big stage. Such is Me You Us Them, a band from New York, and their track “It’s Really Nothing”.
With many bands and artist dipping into the well of music from the ’90s, it can be hard to come across a song that doesn’t sound like a paint-by-numbers pastiche of said time. But Me You Us Them will instantly remind you of a modern take on bands such as Hum, Failure, Swervedriver, and perhaps even Porcupine Tree. It’s melancholy shoegaze/space rock that isn’t afraid to kick at your speakers and make your average rock nihilist swallow his chewing gum about the future of rock n’ roll.
As dreamy as the song begins, it stomps, pounds, grinds and towers, like a song where the emotions and lyrical anxiety tower over the very front man himself. Ending with the mantra, “Can I trade my memories for something else?”, the song comes to the kind of woozy head that feels less like surrender and more like a call for relief or salvation. Damn if such reach isn’t signaled within the music.
Give the song five minutes of your time, especially if you’ve got an ear for shoegaze/space rock, and you will not deny the song’s quality to fit in right along with the greats before it.
Take a listen to “It’s Really Nothing” below.
Written by mynameisblueskye
