“I’ll keep us going if you keep the charade / They won’t know of the debts that we made / I’ll keep them coming like moths to a flame / We’ll be the best thing that they’ve ever seen,” we’re told in a particularly enigmatic string of verses from the new single “Tiffany Skylight” by Goldthread, the lyrics bouncing off of the thick bottom-end of the track epically well. There’s a lot of duality between poetry and pulsating musicality in this single, but for all who have been craving something a little stronger out of their alternative rock, this was made just for you.
The relationship between the guitar parts and the drums here can be rather tumultuous in spots, but this never impedes our singer from being able to colorize the lyrics with a lot of personality and honest investment in the narrative that doesn’t come from rehearsing at all. This isn’t a rock band rocking out for the sake of expending energy, but instead a group of musicians intent on expressing something so much bigger than what the medium has been described as capable of evoking. It’s an ambitious move, but one that has to be done to save alt-rock from its impending irrelevancy.
Watch the video for “Tiffany Skylight” below
There’s no arguing – the surrealism influence this band has taken up in “Tiffany Skylight” is quite fetching, but it’s also not being offered to us with nearly as much of an indulgent spin as some of the other Midwestern rock bands you’re going to hear this year would. I don’t get the impression that Goldthread wants to front a fat artistic concept for this song or its video, but instead explore their own depth as a band that has the ability to make some interesting music not necessarily modeled after anyone’s expectations of what rock should be.
Few of the rockers that I’ve been listening to lately have the wherewithal that Goldthread does in the studio, and this astounding contribution to their discography should do something to elevate their profile among scenes that haven’t already gotten into their sound. “Tiffany Skylight” has some classic alternative rock stylization to its compositional structure, but its creators’ delivery is clandestine rather than chaos-inspired. I think that Goldthread wants to make a statement with the release of this song and its music video, and that statement is that they aren’t interested or willing to fit in with the standard in this genre today.
