The last of the Js. Told you the Js wouldn’t last that long. Though I did take a break whilst doing them. There aren’t a lot of songs I have on here beginning with K too. I’ll probably wait a bit before going straight into those though. If anyone’s reading these, thank you for doing so. I get rather small viewings on here. But I don’t do it for those. I just like to share my favourite music with people. I want to try and branch out onto other topics on here. But this is really all I know… and strongly care about. There’s still more to come.
So the last track for now comes from Cloud Nothings’ album from 2014 – Here and Nowhere Else. That album turns six in April though I remember listening to it continuously in its first few weeks of release. That and Mac DeMarco’s Salad Days. Those were good times. ‘Just See Fear’ was one of the many songs on Nowhere Else that impressed me from the get go. It was, for a while, my favourite song on the whole thing. As time has gone on my preference for others in comparison to this has increased, but whenever ‘Fear’ arrives on shuffle the endorphin rush settles in.
Like all of its fellow tracks, ‘Just See Fear’ is a powerful and intense noise rock track held together by the thunderous drumming of Jayson Gerycz and guitar work from lead vocalist from Dylan Baldi. It was in this album that the band had only one guitarist after the departure of Joe Boyer who played on previous album Attack on Memory, so Baldi takes on the role of both rhythm and lead guitarist mimicking his vocal lines as well as just generally keeping along with the tempo. His words aren’t very clear to hear. But if you’re into melody then there’s plenty of it. Things really pick in the last minute though; the guitar seems to rise in volume as Gerycz goes even crazier on the drums with these crazy rolls and cymbal crashes as Baldi goes on to scream incomprehensible syllables. It’s a climactic section that makes the release all the much better when it flies straight back into the final chorus.
There you go. I’ll be back again.