MMMmmmmmmmyayah, some heavy shit for ya up in this hot ass week. We here at The Deli dig showin’ off some of the genres that aren’t always as much in the limelight in Austin as others, and so we’re gotdamn pickled to be able to throw you some good ole damn ole hard rocking music today, compliments of Big Chords and Shoutyscreams act We’ll Go Machete. These guys released their first album in a while, the (we assume) jokingly titled Smile Club, on July 7, and anyone who was ever into post-hardcore shit like Fugazi, At the Drive-In etc. will eat this shit up they was Jaws from James Bond and metal was a viable foodgroup. There’s somethin’ artsier and weirder in here as well, with some really strange structures and experimentation with making guitars churn out some fucked up noises, and that the band name checks both Melvins and Slint in the info about this album says a lot about what you can expect. If you gots some pent up aggression and frustration goin’ on this summer (who are we kidding, it’s 2015, that’s everybody) and wanna churn and burn along with some fucking music from the heavy side of the city, you can’t do better than Smile Club.

Goddamnit kids, there’s just somethin’ about truly earnest music that hits a chord deep within’ yer chesty bits where the soul feels like it lives, and you just can’t fake that shit no matter how hard you try. Twee and cutesy pop were like scientifically condensed versions of cute, yeah, but they really never got away from the saccharine nature that comes with something so deliberately boiled down. It might be cute, but it’s like callin’ one of those whipped cream injected whippersnapper cupcakes at Hey Cupcake! sweet: yeah we all get it, but it’s not the kinda complicated and sticking sweetness-based revelations that, say, your mom’s apricot cake baked in her small town home’s old-ass oven will ever get ya.

All that’s a very complex way to explain somethin’ pretty damn simple, which is that Les Zombies makes music that is just real goddamn cute and entirely earnest-feelin’, and that newest track "Unravel" is without question the most authentically un-heavy and adorable American love song we’ve heard in a damn long time. It’s like a soundtrack for a kind of indie romance film set in the beige-and-green-washed suburbs with a lot of 80s clothes and cars that just doesn’t exist anymore, and which would probably feel real put-on if it was made these days. Somehow this band keeps nailing this sound and sentiment in a pitch-perfect way that makes it feel like you can just go live in that kinda smaller, simpler, cuter world for a while. That ain’t a bad thing in these angry, immediate days, in my opinion. Listen below, and let’s give the past and the idea of love a bit of time to play around in our heads again as a less public, cuter, more personal thing that’s still confusing but maybe more for the simple human parts and less for the whole mess of new problems that a social media, contemporary bae-infused narrative life has put onto shit. It’s cute music that sounds great y’all, get up on it and let it get you feelin’ some good, possibly bygone way.

The idea that "indie rock" actually defines a specific sound is one that wavers back and forth throughout the years from being somewhat reasonable to entirely ridiculous, and right now in this age of the Internet giving us umpteen different subgenres that have merged to some degree or another with that concept, we’re definitely in the "indie rock is a concept not a sound" end of the pendulum swing. However, there’ve been some times when indie rock meant somethin’ that was fairly specific, and one of those was when the term re-broke onto the mass consciousness in the early 2000s with bands like The White Stripes and The Strokes et al., who took a very pared down classic-rock-based-on-blues-guitar unpretentious sound and made it big. Local act Good Field channels the goddamn hell out of this sound, which ditches a lot of the contemporary contrivances (nice as those can sometimes be) of the indie sound and goes much for something that, now almost 14 years from The Strokes’ seminal This Is It, could almost be called "traditional" indie rock in a way that we mean to be quite positive. It’s all jangles on guitars and Reed/Dylan inherited vocalizing that goes great with jeans and flannels and which appeals to most any ear that isn’t exclusively turned off to summer-day guitar rock. The video here is pretty fun too, and of definite high production value, focusing on a robbery a la Funny Games, but with an interesting little 2015 twist where the girls get the upper hand and the guys just kinda shrug it off. This isn’t music that’s gonna blow minds, but it definitely will please ears and snag some hearts, especially if you have a soft spot for that stuff that’s gettin’ closer to being two decades old every day (Jesus Christ, that’s fucking odd). Watch belowgor some good old fashioned indie rock and roll.