Taste Test: Isaac Dunbar hops in his shiny ‘ferrari’
The synth-pop newcomer displays a darker edge to his craft on a new song.
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There’s no drama like high school drama. It’s as a giant narcissistic web with sticky angular frames that trap its prey between layers of gossip, running through the hallways and clinging to ever-new hosts. Synth-pop upstart Isaac Dunbar constructs a gruesomely-adhesive netting that attaches to his brain and nearly traps him. “ferrari” is dramatically different than his previous single, “woman on the hills,” where now he exchanges for a gothic tale about youth and navigating the thrashing waters of peer pressure and reputation. “I wouldn’t breathe the air that makes me say / The things that will haunt me the very next day,” he mutters, right as grungy, body-searing electric guitar comes washing into the mix. It’s as downright spooky as it is lush; and Dunbar stands in the eye of an emotional, musically-ambitious hurricane.
“ferrari” is lifted from Dunbar’s new EP, balloons don’t float here, out everywhere now.
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