“I wrote “Michigan” shortly after my grandpa passed away, It has always been really special to me and I kept to myself for a long time. But now, with the band behind me, I’m finally ready to share.”
…And we at Cougar Microbes are grateful you did!
We are spoilt nowadays with our music’s availability. At a thumb and a swipe we can literally hear any song recorded in the last hundred years. It is easy to get lost in weird little niches and novelty sound that we forget that sometimes what makes a song so great is a heartfelt delivery of a timeless melody upon on a reverberated guitar, that really means something.
A controlled build of classic rock atop of busy tom rolls and a firework chorus of gang vocal straight away appealed to that part of me that wants to dance with reckless abandon.
Perhaps the strength in Arms Akimbo‘s newest offering “Michigan” is the striking and haunting chord progressions at the beginning and end of the song that both beautifully open and close the 4 minutes of fierce playing. Christopher Kalil‘s vocals are simple and honest, and that perhaps is one of the band’s successes I knowing their own strengths- They are not scared of raw emotion and they know good riffs- and Riffage like this never gets old.
Arms Akimbo are Peter Schrupp, Christopher Kalil, Colin Boppell, and Matt Sutton and their B-side for “Michigan” titled “Little Insensitive‘ is worth checking out also. Both tracks are out now.
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