Oakland, CA trailblazers El Greasy put their sardonic tongue in industrialised synth rock cheek with their maniacally infectious debut single and music video, Bad Night for Leather, which dropped on November 3.
Influenced by stoner rock, boom bap and the likes of Queens of the Stone Age, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats and driven to break the mould with their melodramatically magnetic vocals and hooks that are as sharp as their ferociously clever lyrics, the duo’s big, brash, and bold energy is set to seal swathes of notoriety in the industry.
The snarls furled towards the naivety in believing that improvements to your outward appearance will diminish the existentialism in your experience with the world is a devil-may-care testament to the abrasively affecting allure of El Greasy, which runs in parallel to the appeal of Mindless Self Indulgence and 80s Matchbox B-Line Disaster.
El Greasy said:
The single portrays loneliness and self-acceptance during a night out in the big city. Inspired by a night of heavy drinking in Berlin, the protagonist retells the story of the night he was kicked out of a bar and stumbled by a pawn shop with a cool leather jacket in the window. By wearing the jacket, he thinks he’ll get into any bar or nightclub but is soundly rejected again and again by surreally large bouncers and the terrorizing “eye” of CCTV cameras. The character laments that “I let myself get to me” and accepts that it was a “Bad Night for Leather.” The main idea is a character doing something over the top to gain the approval of others when there is no guarantee of this occurring.”
Amelia Vandergast, the Executive Editor at A&R Factory said:
“El Greasy is set to riff their way into the blackened hearts of everyone who takes their alt-rock with adrenalized shots of big-beat electronica and heavy doses of lyrical intellectualism, which elucidates phenomena that your average song crafter wouldn’t dare to work into their concepts. They’re a razor-sharp cut above the rest with their ability to put your speakers to the test while stretching your imagination with their tensile wit.”
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A&R Factory
