Brooklyn's Lame Drivers make lean and mean music that owes a debt or two to the kind of American stuff I was listening to in the Nineties. The band's new album Become an Island will be out on June 28 but until then, rock out with this.
"My Problem" starts with a hook like from a Cure single only to morph into something closer to the kind of sound you might have found on a D.C.-adjacent band's release in an earlier era. I dig that. This is robust stuff, with a vibe that makes me think of peak Titus Andronicus and even The Grifters. But if you want to hear it from the band, here you go:
"The song is called 'My Problem' and it's not about anything really, so what is there to talk about? A problem? What problem? Everything is fine! 'We don't make mistakes,' that's what we said on our 2010 Demoverse cassette. We printed the slogan on some pens. The pens got a lot of good use, or so we heard, before they ran out of ink."
Become an Island by Lame Drivers will be out on June 28. More details on the band via their official website.
[Photo: Dalton Patton Photography, used with permission by the band]