Photo by Adam Lempel
Brooklyn art-punks Gustaf has just released their debut single “Mine” as their first offering as new signees to Royal Mountain Records.
The track takes the art-punk sound to the fullest extent of the mining, hitting hard and fast with a smart approach that captures some of the Brooklyn sounds of fellow art-rockers like Bodega, U.S. Girls, Parquet Courts and The Wants.
Find the music video for “Mine” below, along with a quote about the song from the band’s vocalist Lydia Gammill.
This song is about having a false sense of entitlement. Someone who feels attacked or like they’re being pushed out of their own world and not getting the credit they deserve. Someone with a delusional sense of self whose anger and frustration is humorous like the superintendent in a college frat movie. The opening lines make it seem like the narrator is being criticizing by someone else and they’re retaliation is like “you’ve got to be kidding me, you can’t say that about me! I invented water you punk!” …. sort of.
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