Track Of The Day FILMS ON SONG
Films on Song, the presumably Post-punk five-piece collective from Charlottesville, Virginia, delivers, since around 2017, irresistibly 80s-tinged, catchy, upbeat, jangly guitar pop tunes brimming with timeless melodicism, amid ‘anorak pop’, Creation Records, The Smiths and so forth, paired with witty lyricism.
The new single, “Hollywood Was Right”, the band’s first song since 2023, explains how Hollywood influences what people like and how they act through a lens of disenchantment.
The song sparks off energetic, thrumming guitar strums, and sparkling, wistful melodies, that tremble and shudder with sharp vibrancy over a bouncy bed of off-beat drums and sinuously pulsing warm bass lines, to wander around dreamy, sometimes sad, nostalgic vocals, longing in heartfelt harmonies while high-pitched backups layer buoyant tinges of excitement.
In the lyric video, mastered by Travis Thatcher, black and white fuzzy illustrated screens show movie clips, featuring the iconic actresses Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann, from the pioneering thought-provoking Ingmar Bergman‘s 1966 masterpiece “Persona”, while the lyrics scroll below, syncing seamlessly with the dramatic mood of the soundtrack.
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