Following up from their 2019 debut ‘Bread’, Dublin-based punks Stupid Son return with their new single ‘Heat Death’. Accompanying the single release is a self-produced music video shot on a 90’s Panasonic VHS video camera. Directed throughout pockets of lighter restrictions with a low budget, it serves to visually aid the song’s narrative and further the band’s visual DIY ethos.The single was recorded, engineered and mixed in February 2020 at Oisín Walsh’s home studio in Trim, County Meath. After a scary summer that forced the band to scrap their existing plans and start from the drawing board, Stupid Son are now set to release a slew of new audio/visual content for 2020/21.

‘Heat Death’ is an intense blast of alternative rock as Stupid Son create a unique and frenzied wall of sound. The band use soothing melodies to ease the tracks obscure tendency while the pull and tug of clamorous guitars provide mind bending harsh elements between sweet moments of relief to create a dazed rampant soundscape. The song feels like it has no structure other than letting the instrumentation run riot – the result is a glorious assault on the senses.The track seems the flicker between crazed manic episodes and dreamy calm lulls making ‘Heat Death’ a dramatic and thrilling shock to the system. 

Stream ‘Heat Death’ below

Author : Danu