The Singles Bar: Ghost Town Remedy do a complete ‘360 No Scope’
The punkish Nashville band confront all their emotions after being friend zoned on a new song.
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Being friend zoned is a shock to your extremities. What you think you know about love and a potential hookup is quickly severed, leaving your lifeless heart oozing and throbbing on the floor. You can never anticipate your reaction to such a seismic shift, so you let it all wash right into your lungs. Nashville-based rabble-rousing quartet called Ghost Town Remedy uncage all their pummeling animalistic emotions on their new song “360 No Scope,” a delightfully punky, skull-thrashing cleansing that gives frontman TJ Maher ample room to howl and yap at the moon. “Now all that I see is red,” they sing in unison.
“We drew a lot of inspiration from two Weezer songs in particular, ‘Susanne’ and ‘Holiday,’ completely by accident during the writing process. This is also one of those songs that musically did not make sense in a normal structure initially and featured a lot of weird beat adding and taking away to mess with the listener and make the song sound more chaotic,” writes Maher over email. “360 No Scope” arrests the body, tearing away the limbs with a sensory overload, zigging from propulsive high-octane electric guitars to a stripped twinkling reprieve and then zagging back up to the mountaintops. Maher is a beast at the microphone, and his band of misfits ⏤ Steve Lane (drums), Jordan Winborne (guitar) and Rich Ridgell (low guitar) ⏤ serve up vein-puncturing arrangements that roll around on the floor. “How long must I wait to kiss you?” Maher swerves to confide that the sting ripples to to his core.
Ghost Town Remedy is a relentless tour de force, harvesting classic Weezer and Rozwell Kid, and in honoring roots of punk-rock, they torch the earth underneath their boots for their own signature soundscape. They’re a little bit emo and a whole lotta rock ‘n roll, and their explosive instincts are an intoxicating marvel to behold. Originally formed in 2011, their musical ambitions took them to Music City in 2016, and a debut LP called Caffeine Dreams arrived one year later. Now, they eye an even bolder and more massive entry. “What did I do to deserve this / My plan was pure / It was a perfect,” Maher rages in one spurt of emotion before vanishing into a syrupy wall-to-wall of sound. And just as unexpectedly, his heart rends in two to reveal a stunning web of vulnerability.
The band is currently working on a follow-up album.
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