If It's Too Loud...

Photo by Charlotte Strazis Elena Buenrostro only started Starcharm last year, but the Chicago band is already receiving a huge, well deserved hype. The band's latest single, "Fake Blood," is a hypnotic and foreboding slice of indie rock. The term "haunted" gets thrown around music journalism quite a bit, but "Fake Blood" fits that term impeccably. It starts off relatively straightforward, before it devolves into an experimental, noise soundscape. Buenrostro's vocals are what keeps the song from turning into total chaos, but just barely. Musically, the song hits this strange point where even we have to agree that it's just noise... and we mean that as a compliment.  Elena Buenrostro says of her band's new single: “In short, ‘Fake Blood’ is about the horrors of dating in your twenties. ‘Fake Blood’ is a song about a relationship that resembles something close to what you want, but actually isn't at all. It's about the refusal to voice...

Photo by Orion Hastings Starcharm is the new project from Chicago's Elena Buenrostro, formerly of Soft and Dumb. Their latest single, "Wake Up," is this bizarre little burst of near mainstream indie rock. It takes a little bit to get going, but it takes off a little after the thirty second mark. Before that it's more of a indie pop style song, and then the feedback kicks in and Starcharm are off. There is still plenty of an indie pop thing going on in "Wake Up," but it's still primarily a rock song. This song is so close to following a known pattern of immensely popular indie rock meets indie pop, but it veers off the path enough to keep the song unique. This is a good one with enough twists and turns to always make you wonder what's coming up next. You can watch the video for "Wake Up" below. The single is out now on Fire Talk Records/Angel Tapes. For more on Starcharm, check out the artist on Instagram .