This Friday, Wombo will release their anticipated new album, Danger in Fives, via Fire Talk Records. Today, the Louisville art rock trio present its final advance single, ‘S.T. Tilted,’ and an accompanying music video helmed by the band’s own Cameron Lowe (guitar).
‘S.T. Tilted’ is Wombo’s purest essence distilled — Lowe’s off-kilter guitars, Sydney Chadwick’s mesmeric vocals and bass, and Joel Taylor’s skeletal percussion — and filtered through their singular visual lens. On ‘S.T. Tilted,’ melodies hum high above frenetic riffs and references range from Limp Bizkit to Eric B. & Rakim; it’s charged, adventurous, and entirely Wombo. The ‘S.T. Tilted’ music video is another entry in Danger in Fives’s canon of expertly-executed self-produced videos, complete with a hand-crafted waiting room set constructed by Lowe and Chadwick in Chadwick’s garage.
Of ‘S.T. Tilted,’ Lowe adds: “It’s the first song we wrote after the Slab EP that made it on Danger in Fives. We weren’t sure it was going to work, but all the contrasting parts ended up being cool. It’s rare for a Wombo song to be written on guitar first like this one, with some of the bass and drum parts jammed out in the basement afterwards. The wacky guitar part came last.”