Portland indie outfit Forty Feet Tall recently returned with their single “We Can’t Go Back To Normal”, which will appear on their upcoming EP.
The track is a politically charged punk rocker with a loose garage rock spirit, with a NYC art punk spirit, with a ton of angular riffs and qualities that remind a bit of some of Parquet Courts’ earlier work.
Speaking on the track, the band adds:
“This is our most blatantly political, angry song we’ve made. Cole wrote the lyrics pretty freshly off of protests and it talks about very specific events that happened in Portland, as well as much broader problems that everyone experienced and continues to experience. We fell into this mantra, “we can’t go back to normal”, which seemed to synthesize it all into a sentence. Whatever so many of us considered “normal” was brutality.”
Enjoy a listen to “We Can’t Go Back To Normal” now below.
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