Taste Test: Bridge 19 lap like a serpent’s tongue with Me Too-provoked ‘The One’
The Americana group employ the anger and brokenness they feel in the #MeToo movement on their new single.
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#MeToo has cracked the top right off our social hierarchy, finally exposing the filth writhing and thriving as slimy microbes underneath. Smoke-stained Americana band Bridge 19 ⏤ a five-piece of Amanda Lucas, Audrey Cecil, Meg Samples, Jeff Faith and Joey Thieman ⏤ tear through a salacious tale of a perpetrator and their poisonous methods of mayhem. In stepping into the shoes of the sexual predator, thus casting a long, dark, harrowing shadow, the group offer an unsettling glimpse into the kind of madness that destroys lives. They comb through the wreckage, Lucas’ slippery voice truly inhabiting that demonic place, and the arrangement quakes in true swamp-song fashion. “I followed you / I knew this wasn’t done / How could you leave someone so high and dry,” she snarls, arsenic spitting from her tongue.
“The One” samples the band’s upcoming third album, In the Afterglow, out April 26.
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