So Pitted – “Muse”

Photo by Lauren Rodriguez

Sometimes, inspiration can be the ugliest thing that comes from inside. “Muse”, the latest single from So Pitted’s forthcoming sophomore album, Cloned, recognizes that bluntly. Built around a locked-in groove that technically should be at odds with the collapse of society going on around it, the listen could be viewed as an attempt hard (and heavy) by this Earth to spin itself off its axis to rid human waste from it, but the the Seattle experimental noise rock quartet’s embody our ability to harness the disruption like some form of immune plaque. “How do I survive / When it’s not 2010?”, Nathan Rodriguez hurls out a question that really says something when peak Great Recession is your benchmark for wistfulness. The best of worst times roll as the listen sputters out, depleting itself of all will until inevitably, our ugly stain on the Earth’s surface just sticks.

Directed by: Josh Chin, Nathie Katzoff & Tad Doyle

So Pitted’s Cloned will be released March 8th on Youth Riot Records.