“At once a necessary antidote and stark affirmation of San Francisco’s current DIY Rock’N’Roll landscape, a scene where despite all appearances, no one ever actually wins.”
Another garage opens, another rough tumbling rock band emerges fully formed. Gruff and plain as peak Sonics, Spiral Dub arrived earlier this month with their full-length self-titled debut on Oakland’s “panic rock think tank” Sanctuary Moon. Made up of members from a bunch of other local bands—including Rays, Life Stinks, Almond Joy, and Fuckwolf—Spiral Dub trudges through an all-too-familiar swamp of utterly satisfying lofi crunch to offer up a beggar’s dozen of songs not bothering to masquerade as poetry: Because these riffs and songlines are too catchy to worry about all that. If this is losing, then so be it.
See Spiral Dub play their record release show on Friday, September 8 at Thee Stork Club with support from Melbourne’s Dippers and Berkeley’s Katsy Pline.
