Liquid Mike, one of the beloved and constantly good bands at present figuring out of Higher Michigan, are gearing as much as launch their new album Hell Is An Airport. The pop-rockers introduced the follow-up to final yr’s Paul Bunyan’s Slingshot with two singles, “Groucho Marx” and “Promoting Swords,” and so they adopted these up with “AT&T.” In the present day Liquid Mike have shared one other Airport preview with “Claws.” I’m dissatisfied to study it’s not a Charli XCX cowl, however it sounds superior nonetheless.
“Claws” is about these nights whenever you ought to be sleepy however you’re feeling extremely stressed, and you then get much more stressed eager about how you need to be sleeping however you aren’t, anticipating the sleep deprivation that’ll inevitably make tomorrow a troublesome one. Who can relate? Fortunately, “Claws” will wake you proper up, a two-minute blast of beefy guitars, rip-roaring drums, and hooks primed for singing alongside: “Then I keep down/ It’s all I can do/ After I get up/ My physique hates me for it,” Mike Maple sings.
“Claws” arrives with a Bob Sweeney-directed video that splices collectively clips of a Liquid Mike gig together with low-resolution footage of a canine present. Get it? Canines have claws. Test it out under.
The self-released Hell Is An Airport is out 9/12.
