First Frontier - "Edging"
Photo by Paul Stafford Birmingham, UK based First Frontier are a garage rock duo, but this isn't purely straightforward garage rock. Their latest single, "Edging," incorporates a lot more punk and post punk than you normally hear in garage rock. It's reminding me a lot of is bands like B-52's and DEVO decided they wanted to update their sound and go a little more rock than they normally do. It's a fast song that goes all out without really becoming heavy or hard rock. It goes at a frenetic pace that is far too rock to truly be any kind of pop. In a press release, the band explains the meaning of the song: "'EDGING' is a song about the frustration of trying to achieve something but never quite making it to where you want to be. That feeling when you’re expending energy, fuel, time, hope but every time you stop to check how far you’ve come, you’ve barely moved. This is a song for anybody who ever tried a thing and it didn’t work out as planned. It’s...