Many times on here I’ve made a reference as to how MTV2 was the first place I would hear/see a song and its video and come to like it for years to come. Today’s song is another one of those. ‘Local Superhero’ by Window Seats played on the channel back in 2012 or so. At that point, MTV2 was now known as ‘MTV Rocks’. This is probably one of the last tracks I came to know from watching music television. It just wasn’t like it used to be. It wasn’t the case that MTV2 wasn’t showing music anymore; it was that the channel was showing the same bands and artists almost every day, none of which I cared for at all. It’s probably been about eight years since I last watched it.

I wouldn’t blame you for not knowing who Window Seats are. If you hadn’t heard this song before, you probably know that the band existed. They released the Frozen Bones EP, where this song can be found, in 2011 and a following non-album single in 2015. To this day they remain unsigned by any label, but they could clearly write a banging tune as exemplified by ‘Local Superhero’. It’s a track about helping someone when they’re feeling low and I suppose this sentiment was what inspired the song’s title. The video which makes for a great watch-along takes this further, taking place in a comic book shop where there are a plenty of references to Marvel and Ghostbusters too.

If this post and song urges you to seek out more material by Window Seats then I’m glad. This is the only song of the band’s that I could properly get into, though that definitely shouldn’t be the case for everyone else out there.