Photo by Chris Carreon

There can’t be a nü metal revival if it never really went away to begin with. What’s been more so interesting beyond the reemerging of some of the era’s cringiest fashion choices as modern cool or young artists literally hitting copy and paste to replicate the sound as their own has been hearing how the genre’s influence from decades ago low key molded the shape of sound in higher brow bands who probably wouldn’t have made the Family Values Tour cut back in the day. Still, their appreciation for big, heavy riffs and bastardized static bleeds into something meticulated as more bookwormish, as it does on “Ghostwriter”, the latest preview from Speedy Ortiz’s fourth studio effort, Rabbit Rabbit. Lead lyrical scribe, vocalist and guitarist Sadie Dupuis, guitarist Andy Molholt, bassist Audrey Zee Whitesides, and drummer Joey Doubek weaponize unrelenting teenage aggro in the listen to their advantage even when a world in decay pushes your limits to fatigue. “I’m tired of anger / How to move on? / Even comets are staying in one spot.” Still think climate change is a hoax? If it isn’t the record heat or floods, then Speedy Ortiz burning up by way of metaphorical flame patterned shirt should push the scientific evidence for it to the forefront.

Directed by: Alex Ross Perry

Speedy Ortiz’ Rabbit Rabbit will be released September 1st on Wax Nine.