Death Party Playground - Love + Fidelity
PREMIERE | DEATH PARTY PLAYGROUND SPARKLE ON ‘LOVE + FIDELITY’
Waterloo, Ontario alt-rock/power pop outfit Death Party Playground premiere “Love + Fidelity” on Rawckus. The song is from their forthcoming full-length album, LP, Little Joy, slated to drop January 17.
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Guitarist Kyle Taylor describes the album, saying, “These songs squeeze a little joy out of a darker time. It’s trying to have fun in spite of it. It’s purposefully not letting something break you.”
A multi-instrumentalist, Taylor worked as a hired gun for punk and indie bands in Ontario. On his own time, he wrote and recorded original music. As he discovered and refined his sound, he began working with Dylan Bravener (bass), Sam Kargus (drums), and David Bruneau (piano).
Taking the name Death Party Playground, between 2013 and 2017, the band released a number of songs on Bandcamp, along with a compilation called Bruce Willis’ Jog Playlist #3. Technicalities aside, Taylor regards the soon-to-be-released Little Joy as the band’s debut album, a genuine reflection of the band’s evolution into an integrated unit.
Recorded in a renovated church in Oakwood, Ontario, the structure’s organic acoustics and clean resonance allowed the band to attain an inimitable scope of sound.
The result is superbly innovative yet captivating music.
“Love + Fidelity” opens on a grand drum fill flowing into shimmering jangly guitars and radiant keyboards projecting a Brit-pop wall-of-sound reminiscent of the Beatles mixed with The Byrds, only more potent, chock-full of gleaming, surging colors.
Slightly nasal vocals, deliciously flavored with quixotic timbres, imbue the lyrics with ebullient energy and beau coup harmonic depth, as the voices interweave and blend.
“Said a word sounded like forever / And now I can’t remember.”
On the solo section, glowing keyboards and spangled guitars merge into glistening washes of streaming colors, as choir-like vocal harmonies soar on crystalline tones.
“Love + Fidelity” has it all: sonic punch, a galvanizing rhythm bathed in a flood of bright textures, and wonderfully vibrant vocals. The result is superbly innovative yet captivating music.
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