Will Schube stays the same but keeps getting younger
“It’s a crispy night of late September stargazing and teenage debauchery. And I got a new track for you cats from Modern Vices. Fresh off their disgustingly charming debut.” So begins the video for Modern Vices “Cheap Style,” a raucous, neon tinged affair–shred-heavy in all the right ways. The band hails from Chicago, but are signed to Autumn Tone Records, the label run by the LA-based folks over at Aquarium Drunkard.
Good on these Chicago youngsters for giving their images some serious though; the modern music video currently resides in the basement of album promotion, but one look at “Cheap Style” would have you thinking otherwise. The video is shrouded in haze, as a serious dose of Dazed And Confused rumbles its way through a raucous road trip. The track sounds like a less self-conscious Strokes taking on the seminal hits of the aforementioned Linklater film; the drums are flailingly grandiose, the vocals surprisingly adept for a fairly new rock group. The band is “self-proclaimed dirty doo-wop,” which merely suggests that there’s a disconnect between their definition of doo-wop and the music they make, but who gives a shit? The music’s rocking, the figurative beer is flowing, and the cars are fast. Alright alright alright.
https://soundcloud.com/modern-vices/awake-in-the-night
https://soundcloud.com/modern-vices/dont-hold-me-down
https://soundcloud.com/modern-vices/nothing-so-cold
